The Futurists II

    Sohiel Nikbin, (born September 14, 1964, Iran, Langroud), Persian computer scientist who was the principal force behind the development of the First Face-to-Face mobile application on Blackberry framework system.

    At age 19, Sohiel began to dabble in computer programming on the latest generation of mainframe. In 1991, while a computer science student at the University of SBU (B.S., 1996), he purchased his first personal computer (P.C.) 386  first-generation computer system with 1 M.B. hard drive and 126MB internal memory. His P.C. used MS-DOS (the disk operating system from Microsoft Corp.), but Sohiel preferred the UNIX operating system he had used on the university’s computers at SBU.

    He decided to create his own PC-based version of the Internet using turbo-C called shared library systems (SLS). The first version of SLS worked inside an intranet with a server (connected to a huge rack of CD drives with numerous numbers of tangible electronic references, from agriculture to technology to medical to anything at all), and 

    Months of determined programming work yielded the beginnings of the semi-remote SLS. In 1997 his SLS was using with big firms and libraries through the dialup modems with lots of users enjoying a huge remote library. Remote Shared Library System (RSLS) retired as early as the first generation of the Internet. Sometimes, Sohiel thinks if he was living in the USA by creating RSLS, by the time, his creations could be the first Internet of all, who knows!

    After years of working on pure application programming development, Sohiel started IT in 2007, and he entered mobile application development in the first platform called the Blackberry around 2011. Sohiel developed the first Face-to-Face call using Blackberry, and soon the application retired because of the first version of FaceTime by iOS.

    Sohiel pursued his journey in computer science, by all means, academics, in the fields of development, in desktop, I.T., mobile, and A.I. at the time, and he released many products, articles, and blogs, and still doing.