I just tried to find out some history on Dr. Jayasiri as he is a knows best lecturer, one founder of NIBM Computer Courses.
NIBM site on contains very small description, i would say "Very pathetic"
"History-
The National Institute of Business Management (NIBM) was established in 1968 under the purview of the Ministry of Industries and Scientific Affairs in collaboration with the UNDP, with the ILO functioning as the executing agency. On first June 1976, the Institute was incorporated as the National Institute of Business Management. Since its establishment, the NIBM has aimed at achieving excellence in the programmes it offers to It's clients who are drawn from both the public and private sectors of Sri Lanka, as well as those from overseas countries who availed themselves of its services.
In May 2004 the NIBM was brought under the purview of the Ministry of Skills Development, Vocational and Technical Education.
Currently NIBM functions as a statutory body under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skill Development."
I could not find any reliable information but there was a some interesting information :
(it's extracted from this news item http://transcurrents.com/news-views/archives/458)
Prof. Carlo Fonseka has to be thanked for writing about Profs. Hooles. Sri Lanka is not the country for honest people. There are better countries in this world.
In 1992, I left the US after my father called me to return home. Unfortunately for me, I was in between contracts as I had not got my green card. After a big argument, I took my books and made my way back to Sri Lanka. By the way, I was a failure of sorts in Sri Lanka but was only rescued by the real father of Computing in Sri Lanka, by that quiet guru named Dr. N.W.N. Jayasiri at NIBM. In 1983, Prof. V. K. Samaranayake had not even started looking at a Computer but there was another academic at Univ. of Moratuwa named Abhaya Induruwa who had set up a lab with Spectrum computers. Since I did not have a job, at the behest of my mother, I went to work at the University of Moratuwa as a Temporary Instructor at the measly monthly salary of Rs. 2940 per month in August 1992. I liked what I had to do and that was teaching undergraduates in Computer Science, Computer Programming 101. When I joined the University of Moratuwa, that Abhaya Induruwa was the Senior Lecturer and the Head of Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering but he was Dr. Abhaya Induruwa. During my time, due to an unfortunate incident – where a son of another Senior Lecturer would come and play computer games and crash all computers with viruses – I was seen by Dr. Sam Karunaratne as an “outsider who had to be put in place” after I chased his son out of the lab and told him in no uncertain terms that he is not allowed inside the lab. I did not realise what was coming my way. After six months, when I applied for confirmation Dr. Induruwa told me that since my undergraduate degree was from a foreign university, the University could not offer me the permanent post at the salary of Rs. 8000 odd for a month.
So where are these people now:
Dr. Abhaya Induruwa is no longer in Sri Lanka and I think he is working as a Senior Lecturer at a university in Kent, UK.
Dr. Sam Karunaratne is still holding on to this post and that in Sri Lanka. I think he is heading the SLIIT but would not want to let go of it. At least he is in Sri Lanka but he is no saint.
What about Prof. V. K. Samaranayake? Prof. Carlo Fonseka is wrong to say he was the father of computing in Sri Lanka. As far as I know, NIBM was producing Computing professionals even before 1980. Dr. N.W.N. Jayasiri had a Ph.D. in Cybernetics and Systems, that is much more closer to Computing than Pure Mathematics. But Prof. Samaranayake never recognized Dr. Jayasiri.
Just want to state one good example of the way Sri Lankan academics operate: as an IT Consultant to the Ministry of Defence, I was given an assignment to audit an IT project at a government institution that was under that Ministry and Prof. Samaranayke was the Chairman of the CINTEC, which is now called the ICT Agency. While I was doing the work, the august Professor went on short tour to UNESCO in Paris and returned back just in time to submit the report to the Secretary – Defence who was then a crony of the President. Prof. Samaranayke called me and told me to put his name and submit the paper to the Ministry and I refused. That was the end of my consultancy work through CINTEC. Thereafter he blocked me at every turn. Now he is dead and gone but his sons work for Google and Oracle.
So my advise for Drs. Hooles would be to think about leaving and returning to Sri Lanka after another ten years. Most of the Sri Lankan academics, bar a very few, are either eccentric or obsolete. Academic administrators are a law unto themselves. If I were Dr. Ratnajeevan Hoole, I would never leave a university like Carnegie-Mellon!
NIBM site on contains very small description, i would say "Very pathetic"
"History-
The National Institute of Business Management (NIBM) was established in 1968 under the purview of the Ministry of Industries and Scientific Affairs in collaboration with the UNDP, with the ILO functioning as the executing agency. On first June 1976, the Institute was incorporated as the National Institute of Business Management. Since its establishment, the NIBM has aimed at achieving excellence in the programmes it offers to It's clients who are drawn from both the public and private sectors of Sri Lanka, as well as those from overseas countries who availed themselves of its services.
In May 2004 the NIBM was brought under the purview of the Ministry of Skills Development, Vocational and Technical Education.
Currently NIBM functions as a statutory body under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skill Development."
I could not find any reliable information but there was a some interesting information :
(it's extracted from this news item http://transcurrents.com/news-views/archives/458)
Prof. Carlo Fonseka has to be thanked for writing about Profs. Hooles. Sri Lanka is not the country for honest people. There are better countries in this world.
In 1992, I left the US after my father called me to return home. Unfortunately for me, I was in between contracts as I had not got my green card. After a big argument, I took my books and made my way back to Sri Lanka. By the way, I was a failure of sorts in Sri Lanka but was only rescued by the real father of Computing in Sri Lanka, by that quiet guru named Dr. N.W.N. Jayasiri at NIBM. In 1983, Prof. V. K. Samaranayake had not even started looking at a Computer but there was another academic at Univ. of Moratuwa named Abhaya Induruwa who had set up a lab with Spectrum computers. Since I did not have a job, at the behest of my mother, I went to work at the University of Moratuwa as a Temporary Instructor at the measly monthly salary of Rs. 2940 per month in August 1992. I liked what I had to do and that was teaching undergraduates in Computer Science, Computer Programming 101. When I joined the University of Moratuwa, that Abhaya Induruwa was the Senior Lecturer and the Head of Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering but he was Dr. Abhaya Induruwa. During my time, due to an unfortunate incident – where a son of another Senior Lecturer would come and play computer games and crash all computers with viruses – I was seen by Dr. Sam Karunaratne as an “outsider who had to be put in place” after I chased his son out of the lab and told him in no uncertain terms that he is not allowed inside the lab. I did not realise what was coming my way. After six months, when I applied for confirmation Dr. Induruwa told me that since my undergraduate degree was from a foreign university, the University could not offer me the permanent post at the salary of Rs. 8000 odd for a month.
So where are these people now:
Dr. Abhaya Induruwa is no longer in Sri Lanka and I think he is working as a Senior Lecturer at a university in Kent, UK.
Dr. Sam Karunaratne is still holding on to this post and that in Sri Lanka. I think he is heading the SLIIT but would not want to let go of it. At least he is in Sri Lanka but he is no saint.
What about Prof. V. K. Samaranayake? Prof. Carlo Fonseka is wrong to say he was the father of computing in Sri Lanka. As far as I know, NIBM was producing Computing professionals even before 1980. Dr. N.W.N. Jayasiri had a Ph.D. in Cybernetics and Systems, that is much more closer to Computing than Pure Mathematics. But Prof. Samaranayake never recognized Dr. Jayasiri.
Just want to state one good example of the way Sri Lankan academics operate: as an IT Consultant to the Ministry of Defence, I was given an assignment to audit an IT project at a government institution that was under that Ministry and Prof. Samaranayke was the Chairman of the CINTEC, which is now called the ICT Agency. While I was doing the work, the august Professor went on short tour to UNESCO in Paris and returned back just in time to submit the report to the Secretary – Defence who was then a crony of the President. Prof. Samaranayke called me and told me to put his name and submit the paper to the Ministry and I refused. That was the end of my consultancy work through CINTEC. Thereafter he blocked me at every turn. Now he is dead and gone but his sons work for Google and Oracle.
So my advise for Drs. Hooles would be to think about leaving and returning to Sri Lanka after another ten years. Most of the Sri Lankan academics, bar a very few, are either eccentric or obsolete. Academic administrators are a law unto themselves. If I were Dr. Ratnajeevan Hoole, I would never leave a university like Carnegie-Mellon!
