ICAMES 2009 – May 13th

Day 4 – Journey to Asia Breakfast at hotel Went to campus Had a seminar by Paul Doany, CEO, Turk Telecom on technology and entrepreneurship It was more on his experiences in making the correct decision and also suggested that not always the intellectually sexy ideas succeed. He also talked about some of the VAS [...] >> Continue reading

ICAMES 2009 – May 12th

Day 3 – Presentations Day 2 Managed to getup a little early and had breakfast at hotel Went to university for the second day presentations Presentation by Macedonia Presentation by Bulgaria Tried some Turkish Coffee during the break, it was good, and the fortune telling was interesting/funny Presentation by WMU, USA Presentation by Russia Pasta [...] >> Continue reading

ICAMES 2009 – May 11th

Day 2 – Presentations Day 1 Get up late at 8.00 and had to skip breakfast Went to university at around 9 Presentations started from 9.30 Presentation by METU, Turkey Presentation by Boğaziçi University, Turkey Presentation by Purdue University, USA Presentation by University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (yeah… our presentation was at 11.15) Though we [...] >> Continue reading

ICAMES 2009 – May 10th – Istanbul Sightseeing

Day 1 Breakfast at Hotel Visit Dolmabahçe Palace Spent half day inside the one of the largest and grand palace in Turkey Lunch on the move Visit Miniatürk Miniature Park Its a great way to see a snapshot of the whole Turkey in one place Goknur Topcu joined us after Visit Rahmi M. Koç Museum [...] >> Continue reading

ICAMES 2009 – May 9th – (the unofficial) Istanbul Sightseeing

Day 0 Got up early Breakfast at hotel Cevahir Shopping Centre with Can Üzüm Meet Goknur Topcu at Kahve Dunyasi (Coffee World) @ Cevahir Mall Took ‘The Istanbul Metro‘ with other ICAMES 2009 participants Taksim Square İstiklal Avenue Lunch Turish Delight İstiklal Avenue Beyoğlu Galata Tower Walked from Taksim to road near Dolmabahçe Palace Came [...] >> Continue reading

ICAMES 2009 – May 8th – Flying to the Timeless City

Day (0-1) Colombo: 12.15AM – Check in at Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) was easy with Emirates Online Check-in, also we can get the seats as we wanted 01.00AM – Felt kinda hungry while waiting for boarding, so had a $1 Burger at BIA 03.00AM – Boarding, Helped another Tamil guy who was going to Doha [...] >> Continue reading

To the Timeless City for ICAMES 2009

We will be in the Timeless City Istanbul, Turkey for week from May 9th to May 16th to present our project at ICAMES’ 2009. We will keep more daily updated on our project activities posted on this blog from there. This will not just only be a acadamic conference, but will also include many more [...] >> Continue reading

Project eID selected to ICAMES 2009

We are pleased to inform that we have been selected to attend ICAMES 2009 (International Cultural and Academic Meeting of Engineering Students) and present our project “Project eID”, which will be held on May 9-15, 2009 at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Our team member Shayanthan has posted more about this at his blog Breeze. Other [...] >> Continue reading

Final Project Demonstration and Vivas

We have successfully completed our final project demonstration and vivas today. Initially our demonstration we scheduled forMarch 27, but we had to postpone this due to a last mintue problem, when we got our smart cards locked. Today’s demonstration were possitive and we were able to show in real terms that our project “could work”. >> Continue reading

Meeting with Project Supervisor (16-03-2009)

We had a meeting with our project supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage today from 3pm to 4pm to discuss about the finalizing of the project and project presentations and demonstrations. We mainly discussed about the project presentation that is due on the 25th of March and the demonstrations on the 26th of March.  We decided to do [...] >> Continue reading