The award ceremony of the National Best Quality Software Award (NBQSA) and award for the Young Computer Scientist was held on 08th and 09th October 2004 respectively, at the Trans Asia Hotel with the participation of a large gathering, which included leading personalities in the Sri Lankan ICT industry and the business community.

At this event the BCS – UK was represented by Mr. Pete Bingham, Director – Corporate and International Development.

 
NBQSA 2004 Best Overall Product GOLD Award
Interblocks (Pvt.) Ltd.
Event Photographs NBQSA 2004 Best Overall Product SILVER Award
Microimage (Pvt.) Ltd.

Best Overall Product
    GOLD iPayTMby Interblocks (Pvt.) Ltd.

    This is a payment application, which provides the acquiring bank and merchants conducting electronic commerce transactions with cost-effective and robust way to process payment card transactions received from their customers through the Internet in real-time, using the encryption and authentication capabilities available with the Secured Socket Layer (SSL V3) technology.

    SILVER m-Studio by Microimage (Pvt.) Ltd.

    This is a full fledged solution that completely automates the media supply chain of a radio station. It encompasses Library Maintenance, Scheduling, DJ Console and Invoicing. The core of a radio station can be backboned with the minimum involvement of the users and human input is only required to provide 'Personality' to a channel.

    BRONZE Q-Buster by John Keels Computer Services (Pvt.) Ltd.

    This is a wireless solution that enables airline personnel to move around the customer service area and check-in hand luggage passengers. The solution is implemented on PDA's with wireless connectivity and is designed to offer maximum mobility to airport staff. Q-buster enable airline personnel to access reservation information, carry out flight check-ins, and assign seating. issue business seating components that interfaces with the airline reservation system.

Applications & Infrastructure Tools
    GOLD Jvoice XML Solution by Atlantis One Technologies

    SILVER aDMS by Affno (Pvt.) Ltd.

    BRONZE EASY Server by IT ABS Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd.

    BRONZE Exchange Insider by Zillione System Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

Security
    NOT AWARDED
Financial Applications
Industrial Applications
    NOT AWARDED
HealthCare
    NOT AWARDED
Communications Applications
    BRONZE Omni SMSC by WaveNet International (Pvt.) Ltd.
Media & Entertainment
Tourism & Hospitality
    NOT AWARDED
General Applications
Research & Development
Young Computer Scientist (Secondary Student Project)
Tertiary Student Project
    GOLD 3D Motion tracking using Stereo Vision by Sasakthi Senanayaka Abeysinghe (Informatics Institute of Technology)

    Today, three-dimensional motion tracking is implemented using magnetic, fibre optic and mechanical techniques that share a common setback: the need for physical contact with the target. Although vision-based techniques provide a contact-free motion tracking solution, they have not been commercially used due to their high resource requirements and code complexity. This product addresses those problems by being a generic platform that hides the complexity of vision-based techniques and provides location information via a simple, open and secure protocol.

    SILVER PHP devlepers framework by Hasitha Gajanayake, Nabeel Yoosuf, Nasly Yoosuf, Sampath Thilakumara (University of Moratuwa)

    PHPlus is an open source project to help PHP developers and web designers make web based development faster and painless. The goal of this project was to develop a framework and tools (IDE). The framework clearly separates the interface (what you see on a browser) & program logic (business functionality). This allows both PHP programmers and web developers to work independently and parallely, allowing faster business cycles.

    BRONZE Semi Immersive Virtual Environment by Prabath Gunawardane (University of Colombo)

    MERIT Webbased Domestic Security Surveillance by NRV Jayatissa, UB Jayesinghe, MP Wasantha, HIP De Silva, A Madhushi, UB Jayesinghe (Sri lanka Institute of Information Technology)

    MERIT Sinhala Text to Sign Language Translator by Umesha Lakmal Perera (University of Colombo)

    MERIT SPlay Stage Theatre by Mohaned Cassim (Informatics Institute of Technology)

    MERIT Virtual Realms by Nuwan A Goonasekera (Informatics Institute of Technology)

    The creation of multi-user virtual worlds has been an area of much research and interest, yet the promise of having a ubiquitous network of such virtual worlds has still not become a reality. The reasons for this include the lack of flexibility in some solutions which are unable to cope with the highly domain-specific needs of Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs), the lack of commercial viability and user-acceptance of some proposed architectures and a proliferation of proprietary solutions which largely ignore existing infrastructure when delivering content to the end-user. This project details a software framework which attempts to address the above issues by devising a transitional approach to presenting multi-user virtual worlds over the Internet, through utilization of the large base of web and application servers already deployed.

    MERIT Speaker Search for Multimedia Data Objects by Tyronne Silva (University of Colombo)

    MERIT Student Registration & Examination by Prabhath Deepal Hasantha Attidiya (University of Colombo - Post Graduate)

    This project encompasses main activities of the administration department from the registration of a candidate to the graduation of the candidate. In addition to that system provides various queries and reports to assist staff to make their decisions correct and effective way

    MERIT Vision enabled game playing robot by WMKC Mettananda, KADM Kasthurirathna, PKRS Wimalasena, HLAN Gunasiri (University of Moratuwa)

    MERIT Counting Ballot Papers by DMRR Bandara, HK Gunasekara, GJLC Perera, RP Mapatuna (University of Moratuwa)

Education & Training
    SILVER CP Online by testIT (Pvt.) Ltd.

    BRONZE School Online (SOL) by Gateway Consultancy Services (Pvt) Ltd.

E-Government & Services