Education and Training

Sam Karunaratne, Prof.

Professor Sam Karunaratne recollects a period more than half a century ago – i.e., the 1960s - when computerization commenced in Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon.  He recalls that the Government in the late 1960s decided to allocate a computer to a State sector organization.  Dr. A.N.S. Kulasinghe, a civil engineer and the Founder Chairman of the State Engineering Corporation (SEC) indicated that he was in dire need of a computer.   Consequently, SEC was allocated slightly over LKR 2 million to purchase a computer.   Prof. Sam Karunaratne who was then at the U...
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Niel Gunadasa, Mr.

Mr. Niel Gunadasa has been awarded a B.Sc. degree from the University of Kelaniya, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education Management from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the University of Colombo, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education Management from the National Institute of Education (NIE), Maharagama and a M.Sc. on Information Management from the University of Sheffield, UK. Mr. Niel Gunadasa is at present the Director of Education, (SLEAS-I) of the Data Management Branch, of the Ministry of Education, Sr...
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Lalith Gamage, Prof.

  Prof. Lalith Gamage is the President and CEO of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT). He entered the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, at the University of Moratuwa, as an undergraduate. Prof. Lalith Gamage states that this changed his life. After graduation, Lalith Gamage joined the newly established Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa as an Engineering as an Instructor. Lalith Gamage has been awarded a Master’s Degree in IT, from the University of Leicester, and a PhD in Mechatronic Engineering ...
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Gamini Wickramasinghe, Dr.

Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe, a pioneer in the software industry and private education in Sri Lanka, is the Founder and Chairman of the Informatics Group. His University education was in England and Belgium. He returned to Sri Lanka in 1983 and established Informatics as a computer company. Informatics was a total turnkey solution company, which offered hardware, software, training and maintenance - i.e. the full range of requirements were offered. With the realization that there was then a dearth of IT conversant human resources in Sri Lanka because the Universities were not producing a s...
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