Nassib Nassar is an American computer scientist and classical pianist. As a computer scientist, Nassar was among the architects of

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software for the

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and was the creator of

Isearch Isearch is open-source text retrieval software first developed in 1994 by Nassib Nassar as part of the Isite Z39.50 information framework. The project started at the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) of t ...

, one of the earliest open source search engines, in 1994. He was president of Etymon Systems, an open source software company founded in 1998 and best known for producing Etymon PJ, which became the standard library for generating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents in

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, and Amberfish, a large scale information retrieval system for semi-structured text and

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. As a pianist Nassar was the winner of

The American Prize The American Prize is a set of annual nonprofit national competitions in the performing arts which recognizes and rewards commercial and noncommercial recorded performances of classical music in the United States based on submitted applications. T ...

in 2014 for his performance of the Brahms F minor piano sonata. Other performances have included the 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven, played in a series of seven recitals.The American Prize
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