Nguyễn Tử Quảng
Nguyễn Tử Quảng (born May 11, 1975 in Hoa Lu district, Ninh Binh province, Vietnam) is the director of the Bachkhoa Internetwork Security Centre (BKIS) - a government funded centre for research and development in computer security at Hanoi University of Technology. He is the author of one of the first Vietnamese antivirus software programs - BKAV, beside D32, which is nowadays one of the most popular antivirus software in Vietnam.
Biography
Nguyễn Tử Quảng was born on May 11, 1975 at Hoa Lư district, Ninh Bình province. When he was a high school students, he study at the Mathematics class of High School for Gifted Students of Hanoi National University of Education. From 1992 to 1997, Nguyễn Tử Quảng studied computer science at Hanoi University of Technology. In 1995, when was still a third-year university student, Nguyễn Tử Quảng started to program the antivirus software. After graduated (1997), he became the lecturer of Computer Technology module of Faculty of Information Technology. He still studies the antivirus software such as BKAV (Bach Khoa Antivirus program) and other ones. On July 1997 he published AV-ONLINE, the first anti-internet-virus software of Vietnam and at November, he finished writing the Internet censor-suppoting software, used for the Internet of FPT company, one of the first three Internet service provider of Vietnam.
On December 2001, Nguyễn Tử Quảng established the Bachkhoa Internetwork Security Centre (BKIS) with Bạch Thành Lê and other seven people. Then he became the Grand Director of BKIS.
In 2003, magaize eCHIP award Quảng the name "Knight of Information Technology".
In 2008, Nguyễn Tử Quảng cooperated with Vietnamese Minstry of Edication and Training in the investigation of the "disclose of the Group A Math exam questions" in the entrance exam of the Vietnamese universities of the year 2008-2009. He and the BKIS were rewarded then.
Criticism, controversy and misunderstanding
Nguyễn Tử Quảng used to be highly criticized when he commercialized BKAV and started do business. He was called "merchant knight", implied that he make BKAV only for money. In respond, on an interview in 2009, he stated that his business is not only for money, as he always wants to create a free antivirus software for everybody. But as a lonely "knight" he can hardly help all the people, hence he and his colleagues need money to build a strong army of "knights" to serve everyone. And, according to Quảng, commercialization is a good way to make that money.
Quảng was also criticized when he stated that his products can compete equally with the advanced software of USA, Russia,... He was called "bomb carrier", "explosive man", imply that he is blabbering and overestimating about the quality of his products. Quảng admired that he was very sad at the beginning, but he understands why people think that way and will try his best to prove his products' good quality.
Rewards
- 1995–1996: 3rd "Sinh viên nghiên cứu khoa học" Prize of Hanoi University of Technology with the project "BKAV Antivirus Software".
- 1996-1997: 1st "Sinh viên nghiên cứu khoa học" Prize of Hanoi University of Technology with the project "Building the education web system Edunet with the Internet standards".
- 2nd "Sinh viên nghiên cứu khoa học toàn quốc" Prize.
- 2003: was awarded the name "Knight of Information Technology" by magazine eCHIP.
See also
- BKAV
- BKIS
External links
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