A pioneer of Sri Lanka's information technology sector, who headed two government agencies dealing with ICT and also founded a computer faculty in Sri Lanka has passed away.
Professor V. K. Samaranayake, 68, had died in Sweden, Wednesday, a spokesperson for Sri Lanka's ICT Agency of which he was chairman, told LBO. The ICT industry in Sri Lanka lost its most valued member after Professor V.K. Samaranayake passed away on Tuesday, 06th June 2007 aged 68.
Samaranayake was the Chairman of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka from 2004.
He was also the Emeritus Professor of Computer Science of the University of Colombo and founder Director, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) of the University of Colombo.
He served the University of Colombo for a continuous period of 43 years since his first appointment in 1961 immediately following his graduation from the same University.
Samaranayake had founded the Department of Statistics and Computer Science (DSCS) and of the Institute of Computer Technology (ICT) of the University of Colombo which were then merged as the UCSC in 2002.
A Fellow of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project and the National Centre for Digital Government of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, he was a Visiting Fellow of the Digital Vision Program of Stanford University, USA in 2005.
Samaranayake served the Council for Information Technology (CINTEC), the apex National agency for IT in Sri Lanka as its Chairman for a period of 12 years, and had helped shape Sri Lanka's IT olicy, legal infrastructure and e-commerce, the ICT Agency said.
The Government of Sri Lanka has also awarded the national honour Vidya Jyothi to Samaranayake in 1998.
source:http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?newsID=1261293742&no_view=1&SEARCH_TERM=5
Professor V. K. Samaranayake, 68, had died in Sweden, Wednesday, a spokesperson for Sri Lanka's ICT Agency of which he was chairman, told LBO. The ICT industry in Sri Lanka lost its most valued member after Professor V.K. Samaranayake passed away on Tuesday, 06th June 2007 aged 68.
Samaranayake was the Chairman of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka from 2004.
He was also the Emeritus Professor of Computer Science of the University of Colombo and founder Director, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) of the University of Colombo.
He served the University of Colombo for a continuous period of 43 years since his first appointment in 1961 immediately following his graduation from the same University.
Samaranayake had founded the Department of Statistics and Computer Science (DSCS) and of the Institute of Computer Technology (ICT) of the University of Colombo which were then merged as the UCSC in 2002.
A Fellow of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project and the National Centre for Digital Government of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, he was a Visiting Fellow of the Digital Vision Program of Stanford University, USA in 2005.
Samaranayake served the Council for Information Technology (CINTEC), the apex National agency for IT in Sri Lanka as its Chairman for a period of 12 years, and had helped shape Sri Lanka's IT olicy, legal infrastructure and e-commerce, the ICT Agency said.
The Government of Sri Lanka has also awarded the national honour Vidya Jyothi to Samaranayake in 1998.
source:http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?newsID=1261293742&no_view=1&SEARCH_TERM=5
