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Abdusalam Abubakar (Cabdisalaan Abuubakar)
Abdusalam Abubakar (born about 1990 in Somalia) is a Somali-born Irish scientist from Dublin. Twenty months after arriving in Ireland, he won the 2007 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at seventeen with a cryptography project extending Wiener's attack on RSA, and later that year won first prize for mathematics at the EU Contest for Young Scientists.
Abdusalam AbubakarAbdusalam Abu Bakr · Cabdisalaan Abuubakar
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- Somalis abroad in public life
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
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Who is he?
Abdusalam Abubakar is a Somali-born Irish scientist from Dublin, born in 1989 or 1990 (Wikipedia, Abdusalam Abubakar). He moved to Ireland in May 2005 and joined Synge Street CBS in central Dublin (same source). See Somalis in Ireland.
Young Scientist of the Year
On 12 January 2007 he won the 43rd Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS in Dublin with a project titled "An Extension of Wiener's Attack on RSA", on cryptography (Wikipedia). He said afterwards that he had never used a computer before arriving in Ireland twenty months earlier (same source). In September 2007 he represented Ireland at the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Valencia and won first prize in mathematics (same source).
He went on to study financial mathematics at Dublin City University (same source).
In short
A Somali-born Dublin student who won Ireland's top young scientist prize in 2007 with a cryptography project.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Abdusalam Abubakar · en.wikipedia.org
Abdusalam AbubakarAbdusalam Abu Bakr · Cabdisalaan Abuubakar
- Known as one of
- Somalis abroad in public life
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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