The first Vidya Jyothi Prof. V. K. Samaranayake Memorial Oration will be delivered by the 2007 Nobel Co-Laureate Prof. Mohan Munasinghe at the Prof. V. K. Samaranayake Auditorium of the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) from 9.30 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, 5th June 2008.
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe will deliver the memorial lecture on the topic "Tackling Climate Change and Sustainable Development Problems Together".
You can see Live Streaming video from:
http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ucsctv/
Prof. V. K. Samaranayake served the university system and in particular the University of Colombo in many capacities, but is best known as the "Father of Computing" in Sri Lanka. He was the Founder Director of the Institute of Computer Technology and its successor the University of Colombo School of Computing. He retired from the university in 2004 but was honoured by being conferred the Emeritus Professorship at the UCSC. Prof. Samaranayake was the 2nd Chairman of CINTEC, taking over from Prof. Mohan Munasinghe in 1985. He was the Chairman of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka at the time of his untimely demise in 2007.
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