Dil's Domain

In 2016, 50 students were selected from APAC for the WTM scholarship, and I was one of them. The scholarship includes a retreat to a Google Office, and a Scholarship Award to cover tuition fees. This year the retreat was in Hyderabad and the scholarship award was based on the country. Let me start from how I applied to the scholarship. I got to know about the "extended" scholarship deadline through my friend. Yes I would have missed it if not for the notice of it, and it was my last opportunity as an undergraduate since I was a final year student! I was really happy and applied with some doubt, but then I received a confusing email which made me apply from a different account. (since it was closer to the deadline there was no time for communication) So the application process went like that. Then due to my stressful final year, I completely forgot to check my alternative email and a friend told me that finalists are short listed. Then I logged to my email and there ...

I did two main initiatives that included a information session about RGSoC and panel discussion at WTM international women's day event on Anita Borg Scholarship and other opportunities for girls in tech!  RGSoC is happening in Sri Lanka for the first time and the mentor organization is SCoRe, my open source contributing organization. I had a session with SCoRe for our university girls from 1st year to 4th year. It included an introduction to program, application process and projects.  The second was a panel discussion with students at International Women's Day celebration event with WTM Sri Lanka. Dinu ( the other Anita Borg scholar) also joined for this. We shared about the WTM Scholarship  from Google, GSoC, RGSoC, Outreachy and research projects. Each event included around 100 participants.(200+ for both) The RGSoC session happened before the panel discussion. Almost none had heard about or applied for this before. After the session I got personal questions regar...

In computing, memory refers to the computer hardware devices involved to store information for immediate use in a computer (primary storage). Computer memory operates at a high speed,  such as random-access memory (RAM) with lower capacities. Storage provides slow-to-access program and data storage but offers higher capacities. Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage which stores frequently used program instructions to increase the general speed of a system. If needed, contents of the computer memory can be transferred to secondary storage, through a memory management technique called "virtual memory". Virtual memory is a system where all physical memory is controlled by the operating system. When a program needs memory, it requests it from the operating system. The operating system then decides what physical location to place the memory in. The operating system with the help of a hardware component called MMU (memory management unit), maps thos...

True that I have not been writing for sometime, and I thought it would be good to begin this year's posts with my colourful last year's achievements and activitites. I hope to see an improved list at the end of this year! :) 1. Started the year with ending mentoring from SCoRe, at Google CodeIn contest for pre university students. 2. Was accepted to Google Summer of Code program from SCoRe. 3. Won the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship APAC, which inculded a travel to Google office Hyderabad. 4. My first paper publication relating to my research area, Radio Tomography Imaging. (Couldn't attend the conference due to a clash between dates for Anita Borg retreat.) 5. Completed my one year research on Radio Tomography Imaging using WiFi. 6. Completed Christianity Diploma awarded by National Christian Council. 7. Was able to sing with an orchestra! (Soprano)