A coin for a thought



                                      


                             Last GNCT lecture  on Thursday we did a funny activity in the class room. First our lecturer collect coins each other and put in to a purse in this activity. Then lecturer told us to pass it among us and when she tapped to the table person who hold the purse have to select a coin randomly. According to the this activity he had to check the year that is made and he had to do the speech about the incident that is occurred us in that year.
                             We could know other's very dangerous incident and funny incident because this activity. If i try to miss this chance I got a chance tell my memory to others. The year of the coin which I got is 2016. It is the my unforgotten year in my life. It is the year which did  the A\L examination in second shy. If all are think that is only very hard year, it is not to me. I had to go most amount of journey in my life during this year. Also i had to get funny from watch films in film hall with our friends. However I did not miss my studies though I got fun. Therefore I could to pass A\L examination and could to attend the University of Kelaniya as undergraduate Software Engineer.

                                                        Culture    

                         Last GNCT lecture in last Thursday we did a very creative activity which name is Culture. We have to made up a new culture not in real world yet for that activity.

                        First lecturer divided our class in two team which team are contain 8 members. Anjana, Hassitha,Ashen,Pankajan,Chathmini,Sandali and me were the members of the our team. After the lecturer gave the introduction of the game, gave some idea to how do that. We had to 4 task to do this activity. That are

• Give the name to the our living land and language which contain our new culture
• National anthem
• Song
• Dance
• Any activities of their lives

                        Therefore we had to design those tasks with creatively. We were given enough time to prepare our activity. So we create a new culture. The name of the our living area is "Hubalanthaya". 

Our language huba huba language. However we made a new culture. But we can not present it very well because our members were very shy and we could not practice before the activity well. But we could to complete the all task of this activity.

                                         

                                                            Leadership 




                                    
     

                                   Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. His unwed biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, put him up for adoption. Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a lower-middle-class couple, who moved to the suburban city of Mountain View a couple of years later.

                                   The Santa Clara county, south of the Bay Area, became known as Silicon Valley in the early 1950s after the sprouting of a myriad of semi-conductor companies. As a result, young Steve Jobs grew up in a neighborhood of engineers working on electronics and other gizmos in their garages on weekends. This shaped his interest in the field as he grew up. At age 13, he met one the most important persons in his life: 18-year-old Stephen Wozniak, an electronics wiz kid, and, like Steve, an incorrigible prankster.

                                    Woz, whose interest in electronics had grown stronger, was regularly attending meetings of a group of early computer hobbyists called the Homebrew Computer Club. They were the real pioneers of personal computing, a collection of radio jammers, computer professionals and enlightened amateurs who gathered to show off their latest prowess in building their own personal computer or writing software. The club started to gain popularity after the Altair 8800 personal computer kit came out in 1975.

                                     The knowledge that Woz gathered at the Homebrew meetings, as well as his exceptional talent, allowed him to build his own computer board — simply because he wanted a personal computer for himself. Steve Jobs took interest, and he quickly understood that his friend's brilliant invention could be sold to software hobbyists, who wanted to write software without the hassle of assembling a computer kit. Jobs convinced Wozniak to start a company for that purpose: Apple Computer was born on April 1, 1976.
                                       However, because of his hot temper and his relative inexperience in technology or management, Steve jobs was thrown out of the Lisa project. He felt absolutely crushed by this decision. As a revenge, he took over a small project called Macintosh, a personal computer that was supposed to be a cheap appliance, 'as easy to use as a toaster'. In 1981, Steve Jobs became head of the Macintosh project, and decided to make it a smaller and cheaper version of the Lisa, complete with a GUI of folders, icon and drop-down menus, and a mouse.
                                       This is very short description about his life. We can get many attitudes to iur lives. I also would like to be  a man like this person because he could to face the challengers successfully.

                                                     Our Personal Goals

                              In last GNCT  lecture we had to present our personal goals in front of he class room. We were allowed to use the display our personal goals on the bristol board. Therefore our lecture inform about this in last lecture.

                                       
           
                       I divided my personal goal into 6 categories. There are followings

• Personal goals
• Educational goals
• Career goals
• Family and Friends goals
• Financial goals
• Physical goals

                      Because we categorize my presentation in to this, Ii is help to explain the my personal goals others. According to details of each category did my presentation.
                       This activity was help me to develop my presentation ability. Also I am helped to plan to my future successfully and what do I do for that.

                                     

Standing On The Paper

                          We did a very funny game in last GNCT lecture on last Thursday which name is Standing on the Paper. As well as it develop the team fit, build creative ideas, strength, collaboration etc.

                            First lecturer divided our class into 5 groups that one group contain 7 members as two girls and five boys. Before we started the game lecturer give the rules. We are gave the full paper and all members stand on that paper without members's feet are outside from the paper. This game have 3 mission. First use full news paper, second use half of the news paper and after use quarter of the news paper. One group were removed in one mission.

                             We could select final mission of that game, but we could won the game. However we could get many advantages from do this game.

• Good team work experience
• Imagination
• Time management
• Develop the leadership abilities.
• Develop well communication

Lava River

                         Last GNCT lecture we did new very funny game that name is Lava River. Also it is very creative and hand have to planning lot. Extremely any teams can not this game without team work. Also we had to educate the tolerate other ideas.

                         First our lecturer explain the game rules and how should we do this game. we had to cross lava river using the 4 stones. Lecturer gave us 4 different size of circle boards use as stones.

During the cross the river all stone should have human touch. If lose the the human touch to a stone that team have to remove the stone and have to cross river using with other 3 stones. Also if some one have touch  the out of the stones that team have to start this game from beginning. Because this game was very difficult game.

                         There are 4 groups to this game and there are 5 members in one group. After we started to cross the river and our madam started to count the time which we take to cross the river. 

At the beginning itself we lost 2 stones .After we can't think anything. And we asked our lecture please gave us our losing stone. But our lecture did't give the stone and our time is over. So we could not win this game because we miss some rules as unfortunately.

Bata Puzzle

                      We did the nice and very hard game in last GNCT lecture on Thursday that name is Bata Puzzle. Also it is creative game.
                     In that day we were divided in 5 groups by lecturer. Our group number is 3. Lecturer select 2 members from each groups and they were given a board separately. One cut the board in to 95 pieces and other one count it and put into an envelop.
                    After this lecturer took 10 pieces from the each envelop in each groups and mixed them with other groups's pieces in the envelop. Our groups also had 10 pieces of other groups. Then lecturer gave the our envelop with 85 pieces from the board which are cut and 10 pieces of other groups. So we started the game.

                                        


During some members of our group were finding the 10 pieces from other groups, others were try to complete the our puzzle. However we reached to complete our task but we could not make the full puzzle because we could not find the other pieces from other groups.
                     We can got advantages from activities. Some of them are we could educate about the advantages of be creative, we could educate the manage the time, how to the team work successfully etc.

                                    

Egg Cover Game

                          In last GNCT lecture on Thursday we did two games. Egg cover game is one of them. It is a architectonic and very funny game. We were given only one egg, papers and sellotape for  doing this game. We had to bring a egg and others are given by Lecturer.

                                                    

There are five group for did this game that day and there are 6 members for one team. Also all teams had 3 boys and 3 girls. The main purpose of the game is protect the egg form cover the egg by using the paper. Our Lecturer give 30 minutes complete the game. We had to think most appropriate cover during the game. We decide to make a cover like a cone that is following.

                                         

             

                      After we made the cover we named it as Egg Star. And also other team made different type of covers  like this.

                                                   

                      Then lecturer throw the covers with eggs and checked that what were the protected. One team could not protect their egg. However we have to protect our egg. As well as one member had to explain their activities of each teams.

                       Also we should tell we had to get many benefits from this game. following are some of them.

                  * Time management

                  * Architectonic imagination

                  * How to work teams and share our ideas with others (Communication ability)

                  * Tolerate other ideas and getting the most suitable idea for a occasion.

Emerging Technology Trends

                     In the age of disruption, businesses and their leaders will rise or fall based on their ability to spot and creatively respond to rapid technological change. Some companies notice an emerging technology and take a “wait and see” attitude. Others see a new technology and take action. They begin experimenting, making small bets, and learning.

                                        

                                  On 3rd of July 2018 there was an important session on "emerging technology trends" for our GNCT program at University of Kelaniya. This session was organized by our GNCT lecture Mrs.Sarasi Senadhera
This session was conducted by Mr.Srinath Perera who is a VP researcher at WSO2. It was started at 10.00am and ended at 12 noon.
All the Software Engineering Students in our University has participated to this session.
  It was a really important session for us. We learned about many new technologies. First he talked about History of trends. Then he discuss on Gartner Hype cycle. It describes how a technology improving.The session was mainly focused on current trends and emerging trends.

                                       

Current trends

API

                   An application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. Basically, an API specifies how software components should interact. Additionally, APIs are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components. A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks. A programmer then puts the blocks together.

AI

                AI (artificial intelligence) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. These processes include learning (the acquisition of information and rules for using the information), reasoning (using the rules to reach approximate or definite conclusions) and self-correction. Particular applications of AI include expert systems, speech recognition and machine vision.

                                         

IOT

             The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these things to connect and exchange data,creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, resulting in efficiency improvements, economic benefits, and reduced human exertions.

                                       

BOTS

                       An Internet Bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply -bot-, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet.[1] Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering (web crawler), in which an automated script fetches, analyzes and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. More than half of all web traffic is made up of bots.

                                                     

Emerging Trends

BLOCK CHAIN

                            A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a merkle tree root hash). By design, a blockchain is resistant to modification of the data. It is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way". For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for inter-node communication and validating new blocks. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires consensus of the network majority.

QUANTUM COMPUTING

                                 
                                       

                             Quantum computing is computing using quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement. A quantum computer is a device that performs quantum computing. They are different from binary digital electronic computers based on transistors. Whereas common digital computing requires that the data be encoded into binary digits (bits), each of which is always in one of two definite states (0 or 1), quantum computation uses quantum bits, which can be in superpositions of states. A quantum Turing machine is a theoretical model of such a computer, and is also known as the universal quantum computer. The field of quantum computing was initiated by the work of Paul Benioff and Yuri Manin in 1980, Richard Feynman in 1982, and David Deutsch in 1985.

AV/VR

                   VR as an Audio Visual Technology. By Dan Daley, Special to InfoComm International® Like a video game, virtual reality (VR) technology allows participants to experience the world in simulated environments. But it may also change the game for the AV businesses.

                               

                                                            Expert Game

    We did a funny game in 24/06/2018  at B11 212 @ University of Kelaniya. In this game Lecturer divided us into 5 groups There were eight members in each of groups. In our group there were 8 members initially. In the first day there were only 7 members in our group. There are,

1. Praneeth
2. Champika
3. Dilan
4. Ashen
5. Dinindu
6. Tharindu
7. Sampath
8. Rajeiha
9. Kesavan
10. Thadsayini

In our group all of the members had different kind of talents and experience in some tasks. So we it helped to us during the presentation. 

Then we cateogarized them to chose  a topic for our presentation.

                                           

• The one who is good at cooking took the post of chief.
• The one who is good at financial activities took the responsibility of the cashier.
• The one who is good at social networking took the liability of the marketing side.
• The one who good at driving took the responsibility of the delivering products.
• Other were the supportive staff.

                                          

During the presentation each one of the group presented their respective

responsibilities  and liabilities. We mainly focused on traditional food because those foods are relatively not in the market. So as a solution for that with the help of modern technology we presented the way of producing and delivering those products.

In addition to our group other group too came width new innovative ideas. Those presentation were also very interesting.

Form this task all of us got to know how to perform a presentation correctly. The abilities of students were highlighted during the game. Also we all enjoyed from this game.

                                      The Round Robin 

                In 19th of June we did the very enjoyable game in GNCT lecture. We were divided to 3 groups. There were about 10 members in a group. we all had to make a story separately as group. 
One person each groups start the game from write one word on the whiteboard in this game. After other members build the story. But during one person is writing a word and giving the signal from him other one to give chance, other members have to close the eyes. And also One person can write one words at once. 
                            However there were some mistakes by each teams . All are make very interesting story thought there is an mistake. We could get some photographs after did the game.

                                     

                     The photo which is above in, presents our story. If there some mistake, it is a nice story. 
Some of the pictures which we could get are following.

                              However that day was a fun day because this game. Also we could get the improve our English language ability by using make sentences in unexpected time.

     My Best Friend

                   My best friend is Miyuru Madhusanka. He is 21 years old. He lives in Opanayaka. He is the only child his family. We are classmates still grade 5 in R/ Vidyakara Isuru Vidyalaya. After he studied at Gankanda Central College in Rathnapura. Today he is following  the software engineering degree in NSBM. He has many ability. He is a good singer and good guitar player. My favourite thing of my life is listen to his song. Also he is a good cricketer. He could to participate cricket in Australia. 

                         
                          His mother is a teacher  in R/ Vidyakara Isuru Vidyalya and his father is a businessmen. He has a good garden, because he interests to gardening. He honest to every one and he help to any one who the want to help. He participate social activities. Also he interests to travelling. He has travel many places in Sri lanka. Therefore he has a vast knowledge of the places in our country. But his hobby is read fictions.

                                                  The Bingo Game

                            There is a GNCT subject for software engineering course us as first year. We could to play the interesting game which name is bingo. In First our lecture give a paper and explain the basic rules of the game. We had to gather and get their information and fill that paper such as like cats better than dogs, youngest in the family, can speak French vegetarian etc.

Here is the informations about my paper



Kavindu is vegetarian
Nipuni has 4 sibilings
Sunanda hasn't facebook account
Janaka nick name is chooti
Powsikan was head prefect in his school
Ashen enjoys camping
Darshana hates spiders


                         After fill the paper shout loudly bingo. Then lecture collect  the paper. After  collect all papers of all randomly select a paper and ask the question to confirm the results.

We enjoyed this game very much and it was very fun.

                                                   Paper Tower


                                               

                              In last GNCT lecture we did a funny and creative activity which name is Paper Tower. It was a awesome game us. We were gotten minimum time and resources to this activity by the lecture. First we were divided into 3 groups. Then we were given 2 white papers, 4 color papers and sellotape.

                                     
                                              

                              After our lecturer explained about the activity and give the instruction what do I do. So we planned to what is the most appropriate shape to build the tower. We draw a sketch and decided to make strong foundation for our building. After we began to build our tower with helps of all members in our group. We could to finish our work successfully because our team spirit.

                                        
                             However we could not build most heightest tower among other groups. But because our foundation was very strong, our tower were not blown away though others were blown away.

                                      -University of Kelaniya-

Universty of Kelaniya is the famous university in Sri lanka.There are many degrees in this university for following to students.
In today there are about 15000 undergraduates are following their degrees.
When we look for the history of the university of the Kelaniya, There is a very proud history.

The University of Kelaniya has its origin in the historic Vidyalankara Pirivena, founded in 1875 as a centre of learning for Buddhist monks.
It was one of the two great national centres of traditional higher learning, heralding the first phase of the national movement and
national resurgence.
With the establishment of modern Universities in Sri Lanka in the 1940s and 1950s, the Vidyalankara Pirivena became the Vidyalankara
University in 1959, later the Vidyalankara Campus of the University of Ceylon in 1972 and, ultimately, the University of Kelaniya in 1978.

There are 7 Faculties in this university.
There are,

• Commerce & Management
• Computing and Technology
• Graduate Studies
• Humanities
• Medicine
• Science
• Social Sciences
• Also there 45 departments in this university.
• Accountancy (DoA)
• Anatomy
• Archaelogy
• Bio-Chemistry & Clinical Chemistry
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Commerce and Financial Management (DCFM)
• Disability Studies
• Economics
• English
• Family Medicine
• Finance (DFin)
• Fine Arts
• Forensic Medicine
• Geography
• Hindi Studies
• History
• Human Resource Management (HRM)
• Industrial Management
• Library and Information Science
• Linguistics
• Marketing Management (DMM)
• Mass Communication
• Mathematics
• Medical Microbiology
• Medicine
• Microbiology
• Modern Languages
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Paediatrics
• Pali & Buddhist Studies
• Parasitology
• Pathology
• Pharmacology
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Physiology
• Public Health
• Sanskrit
• Sinhala
• Sociology
• Statistics & Computer Science
• Surgery
• Western Classical Culture & Christian Culture
• Zoology

Also There are some units & centres in the university.

UNITS & CENTRES

• Career Guidance Unit
• Centre for Heritage Studies
• Center for Chinese Studies
• Centre of Excellence for Strategic Brand Identity Development (CESBID)
• Centre for Gender Studies
• Centre for Japanese Studies
• Centre for Korean Studies
• Center for Sustainability Solutions (CSS)
• Confucius Institute
• EDCON
• Extracurricular Unit
• ICCMS
• ICT Centre
• Media Unit
• Quality Assurance Centre
• Research Council
• Staff Development Centre
• Statistics & Data Monitoring Unit
• Technology and Innovation Support Centre
• Arts Council
• The Samkathana Research Centre

INSTITUTES

• Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute
• Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology
• Postgraduate institute of Pali & Buddhist Studies

Vision
To become a centre of excellence in creation and dissemination of knowledge for sustainable development.

Mission
To nurture intellectual citizens through creativity and innovation, who contribute to the national development.

The Chancellor of the University
Aggamaha Saddhammajothika Dhaja, Tripitaka Vagishvaracharya,  Upadhyaya Dhurandara ,Mahopadaya, Pandith, the most Venerable
Welamitiyawe Dharmakirthi Sri Kusala Dhamma Thero

The Vice-Chancellor
Initiating a splendid tenure of leadership, Professor D. M. Semasinghe, assumed duty as the new vice Chancellor of the University
of Kelaniya with effect from 20 March 2017

SERVICES

• Career Guidance Unit
• Environment & Development Consultants (EDCON)
• Information and Communication Technology Center
• Medical Centre
• Media Unit
• Physical Education
• Palm Leaf Manuscript Study and Research Library
• Personal Counselling (KMS)
• Staff Development center

General Information
University of Kelaniya,
Kelaniya 11600,
Sri Lanka.

Phone: 011 2903903, 011 2911391, 011 2911397, 011 2911407

Fax: 011 2913857


Office of the Vice Chancellor
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email: vcoffice@kln.ac.lk



Registrar
Mr. W M Karunaratne

Phone: 011 2911569

Fax: 011 2908167

Personal Assistant to the Registrar: Ms. Y A D Sugandanie

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Bursar
Mrs. U T M I D Tennakoon

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