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| Posted: 15 Sep 2009 10:07 | ||
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The University of Moratuwa (UoM) recorded significant achievement when it was placed as the top University worldwide in terms of the number of awards received by students at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) competitions from the inception in 2005 to 2009.
UoM won the highest number of awards consecutively at the annual competitions in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In the five years of competition 1384 universities worldwide had received at least one award which measures students' talent, creativity, ability and performance. The GSoC is a global software development competition organized by the Search Engine Giant. From its inception in 2005 to 2009, the GSoC program has selected nearly 4,070 student award winners from nearly 85 countries. USA, India, Germany, Canada, Poland, Brazil, United Kingdom, China, France and Sri Lanka which are at the pinnacle of programming expertise have been key players in the GSoC. Though the total number seems farfetched due to the small population of University students in this country, Sri Lanka still managed to be in the top 10 between 2005 and 2009 with respect to the number of awards won by the students. The most noteworthy feature is that although USA, India and Germany secured the first three positions in the total number of proposals accepted by GSoC between 2005 and 2009, none of the Universities in those countries could record 79 awards as the number of proposals accepted from one single University, which the UoM achieved, surpassing every other University worldwide by a large margin. The University of Campinas, Brazil with 37 awards was the closest while University of Toronto, Canada with 34 awards was third amongst Universities in terms of the total number of accepted awards between 2005 and 2009. Ranking of the top 108 Universities in the World who have at least eight accepted student awards at the GSoC from its inception in 2005 to 2009. |
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