University of Colombo School of Computing

University of Colombo School of Computing

Infobox_University
name = University of Colombo School of Computing


established = 2002
type = Undergraduate, Postgraduate Education
director = [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=1#Personal/ Dr. A Ruvan Weerasinghe]
city = Colombo
country = Sri Lanka
website= [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk]

The "University of Colombo School of Computing" (UCSC) was formed in 2002 by bringing together the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Computer Technology.

History

Professor V. K. Samaranayake is the founder of the UCSC and after his retirement he worked in UCSC as an acting director for a short period and joined with the Sri Lanka ICTA as the Chairman since 2004 until he died.

The UCSC Today

The UCSC is fully equipped with nine student laboratories, two multi media laboratories, two research laboratories, a campus wide fibre network, with the entire UCSC building complex fully wired for Internet access. UCSC has a state of the art network-operating centre. The library is well equipped with Books, Journals, CDs and provides Internet access to e-journals.The UCSC is involved in many research areas such as, Natural & Local Language Processing, Human Computer Interfaces, Image Processing and Vision, Cryptographic Systems, Multi Media and Virtual Reality, Intelligent Agent Systems, Pattern Recognition, Distributed Systems, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Process Broker Modeling Systems, Web Based Business Services, Multi Media Database Systems, e-Learning, Strategic Planning & Management of IT, IT Policy and Multi Database Systems.

The major goal of the UCSC is to prepare students for careers in Information and Communication Technology as Software Developers, Systems Analysts, Network Administrators, Database Administrators, Web Developers, IT Managers, IT Strategic Planners and IT Policy Makers.

Departments

*Department of Communication and Media Technologies
*Department of Computation and Intelligent Systems
*Department of Information Systems Engineering

Centres

Computer Services Centre

e-Learning Centre

External Examinations Centre

Advanced Digital Media Technology Centre

The Advanced Digital Media Technology Centre [http://www.admtc.lk/ (ADMTC)] is one of the centres under University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) set up to carry out training for trainers of web-based training and content development at its state-of-art digital studio, teaching and development laboratories. It was created as a Project for Human Resource Development through Capacity Building of the UCSC which went on for 3 years (1st June 2002 to 31st May 2005).

Some of the programmes conducted by this centre :-

Degrees

*Bachelor of Computer Science
*Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology
*Bachelor of Information Technology (External)
*Master of Information Technology
*Master of Computer Science
*Master of Philosophy

Research Work

* [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=106 Distributed Computing]

* [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=268&Itemid=106 eLearning]

* [http://gis.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ Geographical Information Systems]

* [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=106 Information Systems Security]

* [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/ Language Technology Research Laboratory]

* [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=271&Itemid=106 Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks]

References

* [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk University of Colombo School of Computing]

* [http://www.cmb.ac.lk University of Colombo]

External links

* [http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk University of Colombo School of Computing]

* [http://www.cmb.ac.lk University of Colombo]
* [http://www.ugc.ac.lk University Grants Commission - Sri Lanka]
* [http://www.bit.lk/ Bachelor of Information Technology ]


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