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Moratuwa
university the world’s best |
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The
University
of
Moratuwa
(UoM),
recorded
a
significant
achievement
in the
international
arena
being
placed
as the
top
University
worldwide
at the
Google
Summer
of Code
(GSoC)
competitions
from
inception
in 2005
to 2009.
UoM won
the
highest
number
of
awards
at each
of the
annual
competitions
held in
2007,
2008 and
2009.
The
awards
measure
students’
talent,
creativity,
ability
and
performance
in the
Free and
Open
Source
Software
(FOSS)
development.
The GSoC
is a
global
software
development
competition
organized
by the
search
engine
giant,
Google
to
promote
research
and
development
within
open-source
software
projects.
Students
from
Universities
all over
the
world
are
invited
to apply
for the
competition,
where
successful
applicants
are
offered
stipends
by GSoC
to write
codes
for
various
open
source
software
projects.
The UoM
took
part in
the
first
GSoC
competition
which
kicked-off
in 2005
with the
participation
of four
students
from the
Department
of
Computer
Science
and
Engineering
in the
Faculty
of
Engineering.
With
this
outstanding
performance
students
from UoM
have won
79
awards
between
2005 and
2009
being a
fountain
of
opportunity,
knowledge
and
professionalism
in this
most
demanding
creative
area in
ICT.
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