| Author | Name | පරිවර්තකයා | පරිවර්තනය /අනුවර්තනය |
| Agnia Barto | Naughty Little Bear | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | දඟකාර වලස් පැටියා |
| Agnia Barto | Toys | ||
| Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | Adventures of Buratino | බුරතීනෝ හෙවත් ලී බෝනික්කාගේ කතාව | |
| Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | Aelita | ||
| Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | Nikita's Childhood | නිකිතාගේ ළමා කාලය | |
| Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | Peter the First | ||
| Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | The Fox and the Thrush: A Russian Folk Tale | ||
| Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | The Gigantic Turnip | ||
| Alexander Afanasiev | The Magic Ring: Russian Folk Tales From Alexander Afanasiev's Collection | ||
| Alexander Afanasiev | Words of Wisdom: Russian Folk Tales From Alexander Afanasiev's Collection | ||
| Alexander Afanasyev, Alexander Alexeieff (Illustrator) | Russian Fairy Tales | ||
| Alexander Afanasyev, Alexander Kurkin (Illustrator) | The Three Kingdoms: Russian Folk Tales from Alexander Afanasiev's Collection | ||
| Alexander Afanasyev, Ivan Bilibin (Illustrator) | The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird, and the Grey Wolf | ||
| Alexander Afanasyev, Ivan Bilibin (Illustrator) | Maria Morevna and Koschei the Wizard | ||
| Alexander Afanasyev, Ivan Bilibin (Illustrator) | Russian Fairy Tales | ||
| Alexander Afanasyev, Ivan Bilibin (Illustrator) | The Frog Princess | ||
| Alexander Afanasyev, Ivan Bilibin (Illustrator) | Vasilisa the Beautiful and Baba Yaga | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ලස්සන වසීලිස්සා |
| Alexander Grin | Scarlet Sails | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | රතු රුවල් |
| Alexander Kazantsev | The Destrction of Faena | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ග්රහ ලෝකයක විනාශය |
| Alexander Pushkin | Dubrovsky | ලීලානන්ද ගමාච්චි | දුබ්රොව්ස්කි |
| Alexander Pushkin | On Seashore Far a Green Oak Towers: A Book of Tales | රස කතා | |
| Alexander Pushkin | The Captain's Daughter | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | කපිතාන්ගේ දියණියෝ |
| Alexander Pushkin | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | තෝරාගත් ගද්ය කෘති : දුබ්රොව්ස්කියි, ඉස්කෝප්ප රැජින | |
| Alexander Pushkin | Eugene Onegin | ||
| Alexander Pushkin | Tales of Belkin | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | බේල්කින්ගේ කතා |
| Alexander Pushkin | The Queen of Spades and Other Stories | ඉස්කෝප්ප රැජින | |
| Alexander Pushkin, Boris Zvorykin (Illustrator) | The Golden Cockerel and Other Fairy Tales | ||
| Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Bilibin (Illustrator) | Vassilisa the Beautiful | ||
| Alexander Raskin | When Daddy Was A Little Boy | ||
| Alexei Krylov | From the Bonfire to the Reactor | ||
| Alexei Laptev | Animal Babies | ||
| Alexei Laptev [Illustrator] | One Two Three | එකයි..දෙකයි..තුනයි | |
| Anatoli Rybakov | Children of the Arbat | ||
| Anatolii Markusha | Miracles on wheels: A book for inquiring minds | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ඉංජිනේරුවෙකු වීමට ඔබ කැමතිද |
| Anatoly Belyukin (Illustrator) | Tales of the Amber Sea : Fairy Tales Of The Peoples Of Estonia, Latvia And Lithuania | ||
| Anatoly Tomilin, Yuri Smolnikov [Illustrator] | How People Discovered The Shape Of The Earth | ||
| Anton Chekhov | The Lady with the Dog | බල්ලා සමග යන කාන්තාව | |
| Anton Chekhov | Selected Stories | ||
| Anton Chekhov | The Cherry Orchard | රන්ජිත් ධර්මකීර්ති | චෙරි උයන |
| Anton Chekhov | The Complete Short Novels | ||
| Anton Chekhov | The stories of Anton Chekhov | ||
| Anton Chekhov | The Three Sisters | ||
| Anton Chekhov | Uncle Vanya | ||
| Anton Chekhov | Ward No. 6 and Other Stories | පද්මහර්ෂ කුරණගේ | හයේ වාට්ටුව සහ තුන් අවුරුද්ද |
| Anton Chekhov | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | තුන් අව්රුද්ද | |
| Anton Chekhov | පද්මහර්ෂ කුරණගේ | කෙටි කථා හා කෙටි නවකතා | |
| Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago | ||
| Boris Polevoy | A Story about a Real Man | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | සැබෑ මිනිසෙකුගේ කතාවක් |
| Boris Zubkov | What the Bat Told Us | ||
| Boris Zvorykin (Illustrator), Jacqueline Onassis (Editor) | The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | A Difficult Passage | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Cassandra's Brand | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Cranes Fly Early | ඩබ්ලියු. ඒ. අබේසිංහ | වේලාසන කොක්කු ඇවිත් |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Face to Face | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Farewell, Gulsary | චූලානන්ද සමරනායක | සමුගනිමු ගුල්සාරි |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Jamilia | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ජමිලා |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Mother Earth and Other Stories | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | අම්මා සහ මිහිකත |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Piebald Dog Running Along the Shore | චූලානන්ද සමරනායක | ධීවර ගීතය |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Spotted Dog Running On Seashore | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | Tales of the Mountains and Steppes | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | The Ascent of Mt. Fuji | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years | චූලානන්ද සමරනායක | සියවසක් පවත්නා දවසක් |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | The First Teacher | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ගුරු ගීතය |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | The Scaffold | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | The White Steamboat | චූලානන්ද සමරනායක | සුදු නැව |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | When The Mountains Fall | ||
| Chingiz Aitmatov | ඩබ්ලියු. ඒ. අබේසිංහ | ලැබීම හා නොලැබීම | |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | අනර්හායි සුන්දර කත | |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | කෙටි නවකතා | |
| Chingiz Aitmatov | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | නැතිවුණු වස්තුව | |
| Dmitri Nagishkin, Gennady Pavlishin[Illustrator] | Folktales of the Amur: Stories from the Russian Far East | ||
| Elizabeth Winthrop | Vasilissa the Beautiful: A Russian Folktale | ||
| Ethel Lilian Voynich | The Gadfly | සුගතපාල ද සිල්වා | ඇට මැස්සා |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Possessed | ||
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | අපරාධය හා දඬුවම |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | මුනිදාස සෙනරත් යාපා | අපරාධය හා දඬුවම |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Demons | ||
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Notes from Underground | ||
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | කරමසෝ සහෝදරයෝ |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Gambler | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | සූදු අන්තුවා |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Idiot | මුනිදාස සෙනරත් යාපා | නිවටයා |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | White Nights | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | දිවා රැය |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ජී.බී. සේනානායක | අසරණ මිනිස්සු | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | පිස්සු තරුණයා දුටු විකාර සිහිනය | |
| Gafur Gulom | The Mischievous Boy | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | මගේ හපන්කම් |
| Gafur Gulom | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | දඟකාර පොට්ටනිය : නව යොවුන් නවකතාවකි | |
| Gennadi Chernenko | Outer Space or Bust | ||
| Gennady Pavlishin[Illustrator] | Mergen And His Friends | ||
| Georgi Yurmin | Grandpa's Glasses | සීයාගේ ඇස් කණ්නාඩිය | |
| Igor Akimushkin | Builders in the Wild | ||
| Igor Akimushkin | The Animal World | ||
| Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | පියසේන මානිල්ගම | පියවරු සහ පුත්තු |
| Ivan Turgenev | Mumu | ||
| Ivan Turgenev | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ඉවාන් තුර්ගෙනෙව් : තෝරාගත් කෙටි නවකතා | |
| K. Ovchinnikov[illustrator] | The Cock With The Crimson Comb | රතු කරමළා | |
| Konstantin Paustovsky | Story of a Life | ||
| Konstantin Paustovsky | The Golden Rose | ආරියවංශ රණවීර | රන් රෝස |
| Kornei Chukovsky | Aibolit | කේ. ජී. කරුණාතිලක | දොස්තර පෙතිකුඩ |
| Kornei Chukovsky | Aibolit | අවුසද වෙදනා in අපූරු කතා | |
| Kornei Chukovsky | Cock The Roach | ||
| Kornei Chukovsky | The Crocodile | ||
| Kornei Chukovsky | The Stolen Sun | නැතිවුනු හිරු in අපූරු කතා | |
| Kornei Chukovsky | The Telephone | ටෙලිපොනය in අපූරු කතා | |
| Kornei Chukovsky | Wonder Tales | අපූරු කතා | |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | මුනිදාස සෙනරත් යාපා | ඇනා කැරනිනා |
| Leo Tolstoy | Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth | මානෙල් කරුණාතිලක | ළදරු විය හා ළමා විය |
| Leo Tolstoy | The Ant and the Pigeon | ||
| Leo Tolstoy | The Kreutzer Sonata | සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | පේමතෝ ජායතී සෝකෝ |
| Leo Tolstoy | The Lion and the Dog | ||
| Leo Tolstoy | The Three Bears | ||
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | යුද්ධය හා සාමය |
| Leo Tolstoy | සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | මෛත්රී කරුණාව | |
| Leo Tolstoy | Resurrection | ||
| Lyudmila Kopylova, Nikolai Kochergin [illustrator] | The White Deer | සුදු මුවා | |
| M. Bulatov,Y. Rachev (Illustrator) | Masha and the Bear | ||
| Maxim Gorky | Gorky Trilogy 1: My Childhood | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ළමා විය |
| Maxim Gorky | The Song of the Stormy Petrel | ||
| Maxim Gorky | Children of the Sun | ||
| Maxim Gorky | Danko's Burning Heart | ||
| Maxim Gorky | Gorky Trilogy 2: My Apprenticeship | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | මිනිසුන් අතර |
| Maxim Gorky | Gorky Trilogy 3: My Universities | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | මගේ සරසවිය |
| Maxim Gorky | Makar Chudra | කේ. ජී. කරුණාතිලක | මකාර් චුද්ර හා වෙනත් කථා : අලෙක්සි මක්සිමෝවිච් පෙෂ්කෝෆ් |
| Maxim Gorky | Mother | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | අම්මා |
| Maxim Gorky | Summerfolk | ||
| Maxim Gorky | The Life of a Useless Man | චූලානන්ද සමරනායක | කමකට නැති එකෙකුගේ ජීවිතය |
| Maxim Gorky | The Lower Depths | ||
| Maxim Gorky | Three of Them | චූලානන්ද සමරනායක | තිදෙනා |
| Maxim Gorky | Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | විසිහයදෙනෙක් සහ තරුණියක් |
| Maxim Gorky | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | මගේ ගමන් සගයා | |
| Maxim Gorky | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | මැක්සිම් ගෝර්කි : තෝරාගත් කෙටි කථා | |
| Maxim Gorky | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | මිනිසකුගේ උපත | |
| Maxim Gorky | රන්ජිත් ධර්මකීර්ති | හිරු නැති ලොව | |
| Maxim Gorky | සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | පොතයි මමයි | |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | A Country Doctor's Notebook | ||
| Mikhail Bulgakov | Heart of a Dog | ගාමිණී වියන්ගොඩ | බල්ලෙකුගේ හදවත |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Fatal Eggs | ||
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | ||
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The White Guard | ||
| Mikhail Fedorovich Nesturkh | The Origin of Man | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | මිනිසාගේ සම්භවය |
| Mikhail Lermontov | A Hero of Our Time | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | අපේ කාලයේ වීරයෙක් |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | Virgin Soil Upturned | සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | පෙරළූ නැවුම්පස |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | Harvest on the Don | ||
| Mikhail Sholokhov | Quiet Flows the Don | මහින්ද සෙනරත් ගමගේ | දොන් නදිය නිසලව ගලා බසී |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | Tales of the Don | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | දොන් පෙදෙසේ කතා |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | The Fate of a man | ||
| Mikhail Sholokhov | The Science of Hatred | ||
| Mikhail Sholokhov | They Fought for their Country | චූලානන්ද සමරනායක | ඔවුන් යුද වැදුනේ රට වෙනුවෙනි |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | මැක්හයිල් ෂොලොක්හෝව් : කෙටි කථා | |
| N Radlov | Picture stories | පින්තූර කතා | |
| Nikolai Gogol | Dead Souls | සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | මළ මිනිස්සු |
| Nikolai Gogol | Diary of a Madman and Other Stories | ||
| Nikolai Gogol | The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol | ||
| Nikolai Gogol | The Overcoat | පද්මහර්ෂ කුරණගේ | හිම කබාය සහ තවත් කතා |
| Nikolai Gogol | The Portrait | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | සිත්තම |
| Nikolai Gogol | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | නිකොලායි ගොගොල් තෝරාගත් කෙටි කථා | |
| Nikolai Nosov | A Live Hat | ||
| Nikolai Nosov | Dunno's Adventures | ඞී.බී. කුරුප්පු | දැත්තගෙයි යාළුවන්ගෙයි හපන්කම් |
| Nikolai Nosov | Dunno's Adventures | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | වැඩ බැරි දාස |
| Nikolai Nosov | The Adventures Of Dunno And His Friends | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | තෝල්යා සහ ඔහුගේ යහළුවෝ |
| Nikolai Osipov, Yuri Smolnikov [Illustrator] | A Ticket to Ride | ||
| Nikolai Ostrovsky | How the Steel Was Tempered | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | වානේ පන්නරය ලැබූ හැටි |
| Svyatoslav Sakharnov, Vladimir Surikov [Illustrator] | Wondrous Ships | පුදුම නැව් | |
| Tatiana Makarova | The Brave Ant | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | වීර කුහුඹියා |
| V. Milashevsky [Illustrator] | Within and Without Wears his Coat Wrong Side Out | නිල් කබාය සහ මායාකාර රජ | |
| Valentin Kataev | Rainbow Flower | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | හත්පෙති මල |
| Vasily Shukshin | Stories from a Siberian Village | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ජීවත්වීමේ ආශාව සහ තවත් කෙටිකතා |
| Victor Dragunsky | The adventures of Dennis | කත්යානා අමරසිංහ | ඩෙනිස්ගේ දස්කම් |
| Vladimir Korolenko | Siberian Tales | ||
| Vladimir Korolenko | The Blind Musician | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | අඳ වාදකයා |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Vladimir Odoyevsky (Author), Alexander Koshkin (Illustrator) | The town in the Snuff Box | ||
| Vladimir Suteev | Stories and Pictures | පද්මහර්ෂ කුරණගේ | කතන්දර හා පින්තූර |
| Vladimir Suteev | Three kittens | පද්මහර්ෂ කුරණගේ | පූස් පැටව් තුන්දෙනා |
| Vladimir Suteev | Under the mushroom | ||
| Yakov Perelman | Algebra Can Be Fun | ගණිත විනෝදය | |
| Yakov Perelman | Arithmetics for Entertainment | ||
| Yakov Perelman | Astronomy for Entertainment | ||
| Yakov Perelman | Figures for Fun | ||
| Yakov Perelman | Fun with Maths and Physics : Brain Teasers Tricks Illusions | ||
| Yakov Perelman | Geometry for Entertainment | ||
| Yakov Perelman | Mathematics can be Fun | ||
| Yakov Perelman | Mechanics for Entertainment | ||
| Yakov Perelman | Physics for Entertainment | ||
| Yefrem Levitan | A Book About Stars and Planets | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | ළමයින්ට ඉර හද තාරකා ගැන කතා |
| Yuri Bondarev | Hot Snow | දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | උණු හිම |
| Yuri Gagarin | Road to the Stars | චූලානන්ද සමරනායක | තරු මගට පිවිසුනෙමි |
| යූරි අවෙරින්කොව් | ඉර කාගෙද? | ||
| වී. කුර්ෂෙව්ස්කි | පුංචි රවුම් බනිස් ගෙඩිය | ||
| කේ. ජී. කරුණාතිලක | බිම් ගෙයි සිර කරුවා හා වෙනත් ශ්රේෂ්ඨ රුසියානු කෙටි කථා | ||
| දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | 19 වැනි ශත වර්ෂයේ රුසියන් කෙටි කථා | ||
| දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | සෝවියට් රුසියන් කෙටි කතා, කලඔ 1 | ||
| දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු | සෝවියට් රුසියන් කෙටිකථා, කළඹ ii | ||
| සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | ජීවිතයේ සරල කතාවක් | ||
| සිරිල් සී. පෙරේරා | පොතක මහිම | ||
| ගණිත හෝඩිය | |||
| වී කරල | |||
| හැමට හොරෙන් ලෝකේ වටේ |
Monday, August 3, 2015
My List of Good Books 2: Russian Books
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
My List of Good Books
A prelude to my own personal list of good books I created for my reference.
Why did I go through the trouble?
Why did I go through the trouble?
- Well, it was no trouble, it was such a fun project I really enjoyed :)
- There are so many books in this world and we can read only a fraction of a fraction in our lifetime. I've wasted lot of time, money and effort on books that were not really worth i,t or to put in a better way that could have been spent on better books. This specially happens around the month of September :) Next time I go book shopping I'm going to have a book guide!
- I have the worst memory imaginable and when I want to remember a book name or a author I'm at a complete loss. Now I have a great reference.
- It has been a distant dream to have my own little personal library. It helps to have a good picture what are the must have books in it.
- A good book list of one's own is very personal. If I want one I have to create it on my own.
The list is broken down to 4 segments since it's too long. Some of the books included are my additions, but a lot I haven't read and added based on other people's recommendations. There might be few that I'd have to remove eventually.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
WebRTC
Soo you’re an application developer, and you’re asked by your client to embed a nice little chat feature on his web site so that the customers can have a live chat with a sales representative.
No problem! You whip up the feature in no time.
Being the typical client, he is still not happy. Chatting is time consuming and error prone. Isn’t it better if the customers can just click on a “Call us” button and talk to a sales representative, and it’s much better if the call is video so that they can be given a live demonstration of the products. And again being the typical client he adds, “I don’t want to spend money doing that either”
Now you start scratching your head. How on earth am I going to do that??
Worry no more, WebRTC is there for your rescue.
You have a nice standardized JavaScript API that you can use for free to make a call or a video call directly from the browser, making your life and the lives of all application developers much easier. You don’t have to worry about encoding, media gateways, codecs, encryptions, protocols… How wonderful!
And it makes the lives of the users easier too. They don’t need to share their contact details or bother with additional applications, plugins, downloads or installs.
Another major benefit for the users is security. Do you know that if SLT wants they can listen to your late night “interesting” phone conversations? Not that they do it :) but they can, because voice just goes over the wire and tapping a phone is a piece of cake. With WebRTC that’s not a possibility since it enforces the usage of encryption for both the media and the signalling.
And the types of applications, products that can make use of it? Well… imagination is the limit.
Ok ok So what is WebRTC?
In 2011, Google released an open source project called WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) for browser-based real-time communication. It exposes a JavaScript API for application developers to use and a C++ API for the browsers. It enables peer-to-peer connections between the browsers and the voice and video streams do not suffer from network latency or any other quality degrades. Multipoint communications also supported but scalability to large number of nodes is questionable.
Mozilla and Opera joined the project soon. Chrome, Firefox & Opera browsers have been WebRTC compatible for some time now. Yes, for WebRTC to work, there should be browser support. Microsoft’s Edge, which is supposed to replace Internet Explorer, is already supporting getUserMedia API of WebRTC.
The only one who is not joining the party is the usual party crasher Apple :) and Safari is the only main browser that is not WebRTC compatible.
Standardization
W3C is standardizing WebRTC API. It has 3 major components.
- getUserMedia : allow a web browser to access the camera and microphone and to capture media
- RTCPeerConnection : sets up audio/video calls
- RTCDataChannel : allow browsers to share data via peer-to-peer
How big is it going to be?
Predicting the future of technologies is no better than predicting the weather. But looking at the straightforward practical applications of WebRTC, commercial VoIP services running on browsers, multi-player gaming etc, we can easily see it’s going to be huge. It’s expected to have a market worth $4.7 billion by 2018 and 60% of Internet population is expected to use it by 2019.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Inside Intel
We usually get awkward glances when we say we work at intel. There has been a few instances where a few of our co-workers were asked to check out broken laptops and another funny anecdote where one was asked for help in a Unity Plaza shop mistaking him for a computer sales guy because of his company t-shirt. This explains why some of us are reluctant to wear the light blue company t-shirts in public places.
We work at Intel and we have email addresses that goes as @intel.com; we have access to all Intel employees via Lync; our leaves and expenses are handled via Intel internal systems and we have access to Intel intranet. No, we do not repair computers or we cannot sell a chip to you! Honestly speaking, we know nothing more about the Intel chips than the fact that they are inside our computers. Yes, we do have an office in Sri Lanka and it’s in the HSBC building in Bamba. No, we are not sales people or hardware experts; we’re software engineers and we write software, in fact we’re continuing the same kind of work we did during the good old Aepona days.
Intel acquired Ireland based company, Aepona, 2 years back. We also wondered why would the chip giant has anything to do with an API business. Little did we know that Intel was one of the biggest software companies in the world. This article on Forbes shed some light into the matter. http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2012/05/09/intel-is-the-biggest-software-company-youve-never-heard-of/ In fact, the security giant, McAfee, was acquired by Intel as well.
A peek inside 2014 annual report of Intel gives us a better picture of what Intel’s business consists of. Software and Service Group, known within Intel as SSG, is the segment to us, previous Aepona employees, are attached.
The above are the operating segments of Intel as of 2014. But don’t be deceived by the equal sized squares, the revenue earned by the segments give a better idea of the size and the financial significance of the respective segments.
PC client group is leading the way with a high percentage, but we can see that the percentage revenue from it is slowly but steadily declining and the other segments are slowly gaining.
Intel was founded in 1968 by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. If you have heard of the famous Moore’s Law, it was Gordon Moore who came up with that. Intel is a derived shorter version of the term "Integrated Electronics". Within a year Intel released the world's first metal oxide semi-conductor (MOS) static ram, the 1101. Before long, in 1971, Intel created the world's first commercial microprocessor chip. With the success of the Personal Computer (PC) microprocessor became the primary business of Intel and is still going strong today. "Moore's law" which says that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit will double in every 2 years, is based on an observation made by Gordon Moore. It has become a target for Intel and the reason for the law to be valid up to today is because Intel has driven innovation fiercely to achieve this target. In fact, Intel’s mission statement goes as “Utilize the power of Moore’s Law to bring smart, connected devices to every person on Earth” This year,2015, marks the 50th Anniversary of Moore’s Law.
Infamous “Intel Inside” marketing campaign was launched in 1991 and Intel became a familiar name in every nook and corner of the world. As of today Intel stands as the 12th Most Valuable Brands in the World and #12 on Forbes World’s Most Reputable Companies. Currently Intel has 107,000 employees across 170 Sites in 70 Countries and is included in the 100 Best Companies to Work For by Fortune Magazine. Renée James, President of Intel was named #21 on Fortune’s List of Most Powerful Women in Business and #37 on Forbes 100 List of Most Powerful Women in Tech.
With the dawn of the 21st century, Intel faced threats to its dominance by its rising competition, notably AMD. Fall of the PC and the rise of the mobile is another reason behind the slow down. These reasons are behind Intel’s move to diversify and explore different markets and we see software and IoT highlighted in the roadmap of Intel.
There was a series of acquisitions which helped expand SSG and they include Virtutech, McAfee, Mashery, Aepona and many more.
Hopefully Intel’s software business will grow in leaps and bounds and our neighbors will not give us confused looks when we say we work for Intel :)
We work at Intel and we have email addresses that goes as @intel.com; we have access to all Intel employees via Lync; our leaves and expenses are handled via Intel internal systems and we have access to Intel intranet. No, we do not repair computers or we cannot sell a chip to you! Honestly speaking, we know nothing more about the Intel chips than the fact that they are inside our computers. Yes, we do have an office in Sri Lanka and it’s in the HSBC building in Bamba. No, we are not sales people or hardware experts; we’re software engineers and we write software, in fact we’re continuing the same kind of work we did during the good old Aepona days.
Intel acquired Ireland based company, Aepona, 2 years back. We also wondered why would the chip giant has anything to do with an API business. Little did we know that Intel was one of the biggest software companies in the world. This article on Forbes shed some light into the matter. http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2012/05/09/intel-is-the-biggest-software-company-youve-never-heard-of/ In fact, the security giant, McAfee, was acquired by Intel as well.
A peek inside 2014 annual report of Intel gives us a better picture of what Intel’s business consists of. Software and Service Group, known within Intel as SSG, is the segment to us, previous Aepona employees, are attached.
The above are the operating segments of Intel as of 2014. But don’t be deceived by the equal sized squares, the revenue earned by the segments give a better idea of the size and the financial significance of the respective segments.
PC client group is leading the way with a high percentage, but we can see that the percentage revenue from it is slowly but steadily declining and the other segments are slowly gaining.
Intel was founded in 1968 by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. If you have heard of the famous Moore’s Law, it was Gordon Moore who came up with that. Intel is a derived shorter version of the term "Integrated Electronics". Within a year Intel released the world's first metal oxide semi-conductor (MOS) static ram, the 1101. Before long, in 1971, Intel created the world's first commercial microprocessor chip. With the success of the Personal Computer (PC) microprocessor became the primary business of Intel and is still going strong today. "Moore's law" which says that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit will double in every 2 years, is based on an observation made by Gordon Moore. It has become a target for Intel and the reason for the law to be valid up to today is because Intel has driven innovation fiercely to achieve this target. In fact, Intel’s mission statement goes as “Utilize the power of Moore’s Law to bring smart, connected devices to every person on Earth” This year,2015, marks the 50th Anniversary of Moore’s Law.
Infamous “Intel Inside” marketing campaign was launched in 1991 and Intel became a familiar name in every nook and corner of the world. As of today Intel stands as the 12th Most Valuable Brands in the World and #12 on Forbes World’s Most Reputable Companies. Currently Intel has 107,000 employees across 170 Sites in 70 Countries and is included in the 100 Best Companies to Work For by Fortune Magazine. Renée James, President of Intel was named #21 on Fortune’s List of Most Powerful Women in Business and #37 on Forbes 100 List of Most Powerful Women in Tech.
With the dawn of the 21st century, Intel faced threats to its dominance by its rising competition, notably AMD. Fall of the PC and the rise of the mobile is another reason behind the slow down. These reasons are behind Intel’s move to diversify and explore different markets and we see software and IoT highlighted in the roadmap of Intel.
There was a series of acquisitions which helped expand SSG and they include Virtutech, McAfee, Mashery, Aepona and many more.
Hopefully Intel’s software business will grow in leaps and bounds and our neighbors will not give us confused looks when we say we work for Intel :)
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Happy Women's Day
I’m a female tech lead.
That’s enough to set me apart and I truly wish for the day it won’t.
Some will ask, “Are you blind? Don’t you see that all tech companies have so many female employees?” From them I ask “How many women leads and architects do you see in them?” And they will shut up!
Why is it that we have very few females in the senior end of dev track? We do see so many female sw engineers. Does that mean the glass ceiling is at the lead level?
Ok. Stop. Why do we even bother? Women in SL get a nice education, attend universities and hold so many positions. They get a nice paycheck, make decisions, drive their own cars, and travel on their own. Does it really matter if we don’t have many females in these very specific roles?
Let me tell you a story.
There was this 17 year old girl who did not get a nice English education as her brothers did, and was married off to a 42 year old man against her will by her father. If a woman can read a medical prescription, isn’t it enough? he asked.
Well, that girl is well over 80 and is my grandmother.
Look at the difference two generations have made. In the first generation it’s enough for a girl to know how to read or write. In the second generation it’s enough for a girl to have university education and in the third generation it’s enough for a girl to have a well-paying job.
Here’s another story.
In the 1940s the record time for running a mile had reached 4:01 min. It was believed by doctors and scientists that it was physically impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes. And no one did until 1954. In 1954 Roger Bannister broke the 4 min barrier and set a new record in Olympics. Interesting part is not him breaking the record, but another one breaking it after a month and half a dozen breaking it within the next few years.
Both stories are about stereotypes, norms, paradigms, whatever the term we like to use. Once the barrier is broken, once the paradigm is changed, the norm will change.
Most evil of the stereotypes are the ones that exist in our own heads.
Happy women’s day to all the lovely ladies who silently do a battle in their own fronts without even knowing that they do so.
That’s enough to set me apart and I truly wish for the day it won’t.
Some will ask, “Are you blind? Don’t you see that all tech companies have so many female employees?” From them I ask “How many women leads and architects do you see in them?” And they will shut up!
Why is it that we have very few females in the senior end of dev track? We do see so many female sw engineers. Does that mean the glass ceiling is at the lead level?
Ok. Stop. Why do we even bother? Women in SL get a nice education, attend universities and hold so many positions. They get a nice paycheck, make decisions, drive their own cars, and travel on their own. Does it really matter if we don’t have many females in these very specific roles?
Let me tell you a story.
There was this 17 year old girl who did not get a nice English education as her brothers did, and was married off to a 42 year old man against her will by her father. If a woman can read a medical prescription, isn’t it enough? he asked.
Well, that girl is well over 80 and is my grandmother.
Look at the difference two generations have made. In the first generation it’s enough for a girl to know how to read or write. In the second generation it’s enough for a girl to have university education and in the third generation it’s enough for a girl to have a well-paying job.
Here’s another story.
In the 1940s the record time for running a mile had reached 4:01 min. It was believed by doctors and scientists that it was physically impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes. And no one did until 1954. In 1954 Roger Bannister broke the 4 min barrier and set a new record in Olympics. Interesting part is not him breaking the record, but another one breaking it after a month and half a dozen breaking it within the next few years.
Both stories are about stereotypes, norms, paradigms, whatever the term we like to use. Once the barrier is broken, once the paradigm is changed, the norm will change.
Most evil of the stereotypes are the ones that exist in our own heads.
Happy women’s day to all the lovely ladies who silently do a battle in their own fronts without even knowing that they do so.
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