Good Bye UCSC

Past week was my last week at UCSC. I had my final year project defense last week and it was the last commitment that I had towards my university. The only other thing that we have to do is organize the Research Symposium. It will be held on 25th August.

UCSC had been my second-home for last 4 years and have some wonderful memories associated with it. It groomed me of becoming the person that I am today and I am forever grateful to University of Colombo and UCSC.

UCSC Research Symposium

A gallant display of research prowess awaits unveiling as the country’s premiere Computer Science and Information Technology research community stages the biggest event of the year - the UCSC Research Symposium 2009. With the memories of the inaugural UCSC Research Symposium in 2008 that revolutionized the undergraduate Computer Science research in Sri Lanka, the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) expands this year’s event into new bounds, embracing cutting-edge research in both quantitative and qualitative disciplines.

Date:
Tuesday, 25th of August 2009
8.00 AM to 5.00 PM

Venue:
Prof V.K. Samaranayake Auditorium,
University of Colombo School of Computing,
Colombo 7,

Sri Lanka

Prof: V. K. Samaranayake Commemoration

The Students' Union of UCSC commemorated late Prof. V.K. Samaranayake by donating equipment to Army Hospital at Narahenpita on 18.06.2009. Prof. Samaranayake was considered the "Father of Information Technology" in Sri Lanka.

UCSC TV

UCSC launched it's TV channel today :) You can access it from here.

Online Sinhala Unicode Keyboard

Although I have been using this for a while, I didn't have a chance to blog about it. It is developed by Language Technology Research Laboratory (LTRL) of UCSC. With the help of this tool you can easily blog or update your status messages in Sinhala.

Google Summer of Code Intro

Last Wednesday I did an introductory presentation to our First Year undergrads on Google Summer of Code (GSoC).This event was organized by Dr. Hewagamage and Mr. Dulan Wathugala. Some other students introduced MS Imagine Cup competition. The First year students' were very enthusiastic about GSoC and they had a lot of questions about it. None of them asked a single question during the Q&A session. :) But after the whole thing was finished, one by one came and asked questions.