Bill Gates on Sri Lanka

I just got a notification from Google Alerts, (since I had an alert set up for WSO2) on Ajith's blog entry from where I saw this video.



It is amazing that how the world recognizes Sri Lanka on the worlds IT industry... I think considerable amount of acknowledgement should go to Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana who helps the talented Sri Lankans to show off there abilities on the global IT industry. I am fortunate enough to be guided from him.

Apart form that I should also mention about the University Of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, which constructs most of these talented Sri Lankan stars from the scratch; well to be more specific the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. I am proud to be part of that as well. For example, when I was entering to the university to do my B.Sc. Engineering degree, I had just only seen a computer and touched it for several times.. but it at least took me 30-40 seconds to type in my name "Ruwan Linton" :-), I am proud to be a well instrumented Software Engineer after 4 years of studies, I know this story is true for most of the people who came to the university from country side, at least on those days. So, a huge thank to CSE - UOM as well.

Congratulations to Sri Lanka... and our guys.