Recent manuscripts, books, papers and selected technical publications on numeration, Sinhala language technology, Unicode, Internet infrastructure and ICT for development.
Harsha Wijayawardhana presented his recent research within “Zero to Infinity: India’s Mathematical Legacy,” organized by the Department of Classical Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya. View the official conference record →
Photograph status: the official event page confirms the presentation and speaker listing but does not currently publish a photograph of Harsha presenting.
Indian financial and business publication Mint reported on Sri Lanka’s locally developed Automated Fingerprint Identification System and interviewed Harsha Wijayawardhana as Head of the Software Development Unit at the University of Colombo School of Computing. The feature described the reduction of fingerprint-search time, the work of Theekshana researchers, latent-print processing and the system’s Manthan recognition.
The article includes a photograph of Harsha by Ramesh Pathania for Mint. Read the original Indian media feature and view the photograph →
Submitted following acceptance of the abstract for the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics Annual Meeting 2026. The paper examines inscriptional numerals and the pathway toward place value and zero.
A current paper by Harsha Wijayawardhana on corpus development, institutional stewardship and lessons from Sri Lanka’s Sinhala-computing history.
Technical writing on script-specific IDN work, Sinhala labels and multilingual Internet infrastructure. Read the locally preserved article →
Book presenting research into Sinhala Illakkam, Lith Illakkam and related historical numeral systems.
Published in Partners in Progress, the felicitation volume honouring Prof. V. K. Samaranayake. View the verified publication record →
V. K. Samaranayake, S. T. Nandasara, J. B. Dissanayake, A. R. Weerasinghe and H. Wijayawardhana; University of Colombo School of Computing.
Technical and language-technology contribution to Sri Lanka’s national romanization work through the Survey Department, based on ISO 15919 with Sri Lankan modifications and considered by the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems.