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  • Dana

    Dana may stand for offering, alms, and donation.
    Dana may be performed anonymously, or at an event (e.g. birthday, anniversary).
    According to a saying, “Dhamma Dana excels all Dana”.

    There can be “Double Dana“.
    For example, Sayagyi U Ba Than donates the Garwara Money that he received from the SPZPs and alumni back to Charitable Organizations. During one my visits, I witnessed the donation of One Lakh Kyat each to then organizations. They include : Bo Bwa Yeik Tha, Little Sisters for the Poor, School for Deaf and Dumb, School for the Blind, U Hla Tun Foundation, Nar Yay Ah Thin.

    Dana transcends religion and culture.

    For Buddhists, Dana provides opportunities to gain kusala (wholesome deeds) before, during and after the offering.
    One can share merits when performing a Dana.
    One can rejoice past Dana and gain merits.

    “Pyinnya Dana” may stand for offerings made for the advancement of education [of the people and the society]. Dana for the “YTU Library Modernization” would be a form of Pyinnya Dana. Knowledge Sharing may also be a form of Pyinnya Dana.

    Swel Daw Yeik Foundation (SDYF) provides some financial assistance to eligible sayas and sayamas for Hospitalization and Frequent visits to the Clinic.

    RITAA and NorCal RITAA provide some financial assistance to eligible YTU students.

    RIT Ah Nu Pyinnya Shins donate to the various noble causes (e.g. SPZP, Shwe YaDu, YTU Library) in cash and kind, Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu.

    Some Major Donors

    • Saya U Tin Htut (M60) — K 100 Lakhs to YTU Library Modernization Project, K 10 Lakhs to Swel Daw Yeik Foundation, Some of the Garawa money to the then MES (Mechanical Engineering Chapter)
    • Daw Myint Myint (C69) — K 150 Lakhs for YTU Library Modernization; Major donor of 69er HCF
    • Ivan Lee (M69) — Major donor of 69er HCF and MASTAA; Golden Sponsor of SPZP-2000 and 2007
    • U Thaung Sein (Steeve Kay, EC70) — US$20000+ to RIT related activities; Multiple Golden Sponsor of SPZPs; Health Care for eligible RIT sayas and sayamas
    • U Tha Htay (M70) — Major donor for Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65
    • Benny Tan (M70) — Multiple Golden Sponsor of SPZPs; Major donor for Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65
    • Dr. Myo Khin (C70) and Daw Mya Mya Nwe (C73) — K 100 Lakhs for or YTU Library Modernization
    • U Khin Maung Tun (T78) — Major donor of SDYF; Vision Care for eligible RIT sayas and sayamas

  • I Zeyar Linn (M69)

    On behalf of the 69er Health Care Group, U Tin Htut, U Ngwe Soe and U Htay Aung offered the token support of One Lakh to the bereaved family.

  • Computer Courses at UCC

    Saya Dr. Chit Swe was a firm believer of

    • Technology Transfer
    • Leapfrogging Technology
    • Lifelong Learning
    • Personnel Development

    He initiated several programs for Technology Transfer. He had a Component in the UCC Project Plan to have elite Computer Professionals help jump start the Computerization in Burma. The contract for the Component was won by Professor Harry D. Huskey (Computer Pioneer and Past President of ACM). UCC was privileged to have Lectures and Seminars by Experts (Theory and Practice of Computing, Computer Science, Computer Technology, Computer Applications, Computer History …).

    Academic courses given under the aegis of Department of Mathematics include :

    • M.Sc. (Computer Science)
    • DAC — Diploma in Automatic Computing

    Courses for computer users include :

    • Computer Orientation Course (COC)
    • Computer Programming Course (CPC)
    • Elective for Honors and Post-graduate in other disciplines
    • Intensive training (e.g. for Population Census Data Processing)
    • Special training (e.g. for State Scholars)
    • Planning (e.g. for departments intending to purchase computers)

  • Languages

    Language Classification

    There are several ways to classify languages, e..g. Natural Languages, Programming Languages

    In Computer Science and applications, a Programming Language is a language used to program (e.g. instruct) computers.

    In the early days, computer engineers and selected programmers have to program in Machine Language (with strings of Zeroes and Ones). They are due partly to the choice of Binary Number System as the basis of designing Arithmetic and Logic Unit inside the computer.
    On the ICL 1902S computer, we often have to use the 24 keys to enter short pieces of Machine Code. That is history.

    To bridge the human users and the computers, the next step was to use Assembly Languages such as (a) Simple/Symbolic Assembly Language (b) Macro Assembly Language.
    A Macro Processor translates Macros (a well-defined group of Assembly Language instructions).
    An Assembler translates a program in Assembly Language into Machine Language instructions.

    The development of the first 11 (or so) programming languages can be found in the first HOPL (History
    of Programming Languages) Conference.
    Currently, there are thousands of programming languages (some for academic purposes) and a limited number used for production.

    Programming Styles

    Over the years, the style of programming evolved.

    • Procedural programming
      e.g. telling the computer system what to do, emphasis on the “verbs”
    • Non-procedural programming
      e.g. telling the computer system what one wants
    • Object Oriented programming
      e.g. emphasis on the “nouns”
    • Functional programming
      e.g. based on “functions”
    • Logic programming
      e.g. based on “Horn logic” and similar logic systems
    • Top down step wise development
    • Bottom up & Middle out techniques
    • AI programming
    • Low Code & No Code

    Within each paradigm, there are several programming languages with known advantages and limitations.

    Turing Computability

    There is a theoretical model called “Turing Machine”, which is primitive but has the computational power of modern computers.

    Alan Perlis, a pioneer Computer Scientist and Programming Language Designer, defined a “Turing Tar Pit where everything is possible, but nothing is easy.”

  • Paulian Gatherings

    Dr. Khin Maung Zaw (Frank Gale, SPHS63)

    • Family members

    He lives in the UK. He came to Yangon at least once a year to visit his 90+ year young mother and his eldest sister (who takes care of the mother).
    One day, his mother fell down and was hurt. Worse still, his sister was shocked and succumbed to a massive heart attack.
    A year later, his mother passed away.

    • Friends

    During his visit, he would also see his Paulian friends.

    The photo was taken at a mini-gathering with Dr. Myo San (Freddie Ba San, GBNF), Khin Maung Bo (Allan Saw Maung, EP69), Tin Tun (M69), Kyaw Wynn (EE) and Than Win (M69).

    Kyaw Wynn (SPHS63)

    • Rowing

    He was a crew mate of Willie Soe Maung (Myint Soe, SPHS63, GBNF), Maung Maung Kyi (SPHS63), Hla Min (SPHS63) and Myint Thein (SPHS62, Cox, GBNF). We were Senior Novices Runners-up and were awarded Full Green.

    • Birthday Soon Kyway

    During my visit to Yangon, Kyaw Wynn hosted a lunch gathering at “Shwe Ba” Saing to celebrate his birthday.
    He offered Nawakama to Uzin Aung Chaw (Victor, Ashin Ukkamsa), who was then residing in Sagaing Hills.
    Aung Kyi (Arthur Kyi), Aye Ngwe (Edwin Ngwe), and some (whom we have lost contact) showed up.
    Arthur used to drive a big motor cycle. Edwin was a regular football player on most Saturdays after taking the one-hour Mathematics test given by Brother Clementian.

    Maung Maung Kyi (SPHS63)

    He was my classmate at SPHS and I.Sc.(A) and my rowing partner at RUBC.
    When Rangoon University closed citing Security Concerns in 1963, he applied for a States Scholarship to study Chemical Engineering at Dresden University in Germany. He specialized in Pulp and Paper.
    He worked for Sittaung Paper Mill and PPIC before moving to Wales, England.
    He was a Best Man at my wedding.
    We had a mini-reunion in 2017, when we visited UK and my cousin nephew Dr. Khin Tun (Peter, GBNF) drove us to Ogmore-by-the-sea in Wales.

    Miscellaneous

    • Micro-gathering with Dr. Myint Soe (Benjamin Lye)
    • Soon offering for Sayadaw Beatson (Physics & Scout Master, SPHS)
    • Wedding reception of Dr. Nyan Taw (Dicky Taw’s) daughter
    • Wedding reception of U Aung Kyaw Myint (Eddie Shein’s) daughter
    • Dinner gathering of mostly SPHS65 and their de facto leader U Myo Nyunt (Harry Kyaw, SPHS63)
    • Micro-gathering with Dr. Min Oo (@nd in Burma, Mathematics), Professor Emeritus of McMasters University.

  • October-born Sayas

    အောက်တိုဘာဘွား သက်ကြီးဆရာများ

    U Ba Than ဦးဘသန်း

    ပါမောက္ခ ၊ စက်မှုအင်ဂျင်နီယာ — ငြိမ်း

    Retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering

    October 2, 1930

    Dr. Aung Gyi / Dr အောင်ကြီး

    ပါမောက္ခချုပ် ၊ ရန်ကုန်စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ် — ငြိမ်း

    Retired Rector, Rangoon Institute of Technology

    October 1, 1931

    U Myo Myint Sein ဦးမျိုးမြင့်စိန်

    ပါမောက္ခ ၊ ပိသုကာ — ငြိမ်း

    Retired Professor of Architecture

    October 1, 1931

  • RITAA AGM

    RITAA (formally known as RIT-YIT-YTU RIT Alumni Association) has conducted the AGM (Annual General Meeting).
    The Interim Committee headed by U Tin Latt (M85) is to be congratulated for the work being done.
    The AGM elected U Myo Aye (M94) as President.

    One Photo shows Hmaw Sayagyi U Wynn Htain Oo (M72) with the Outgoing and Incoming Presidents of RITAA.
    WHO is extremely happy to have fulfilled his promise of “handing over the torch to the young and not so young”.
    The oldies will continue to support key projects and share their experience.

    Other photos show the attendees and new EC members, which span three or so decades.

  • Aung

    • Saya U Aung (C70)
    • U Aung Aung — ex-Microsoft
    • U Aung Aung — UCC
    • U Aung Aung Thein — UCC
    • U Aung Ba — Dedaye
    • U Aung Baw
    • U Aung Bu
    • U Aung Chan
    • U Aung Chaw (Victor) — Ashin Ukkamsa
    • U Aung Chein
    • U Aung Daung
    • Aung Daw Mu
    • Saya Dr. Aung Gyi
    Dr. Aung Gyi
    • Saya U Aung Hla — Dean; Professor of Mathematics
    • U Aung Hlaing (UCC)
    • U Aung Htay
    Dr. Aung Gyi
    • Saya Dr. Aung Gyi — BS and MS in Civil Engineering from MIT; Ph.D from University of Alberta; Professor of Civil Engineering; Rector of RIT; Worked on UN assignment before moving to Canada; Contributed articles to RIT Alumni International Newsletter and HMEE.
    • U Aung Gyi (Simon) — ChE62; Spouse : Daw Yin Kyi (T61)
    • Saya U Aung Gyi — Mathematics, MASU; Staff Saya for the Inlay Khaung Daing Luyechun Camp in the Summer of 1965
    • Bohmu Aung Gyi (Cyril) — Commander, Burma Navy; Patron of Defense Services Sailing; Son : Htoo Aung Gyi (SEAP)
    • Bogyoke Aung Gyi — Negotiator for Caretaker Government (1958); Member of Revolutionary Council
    • U Aung Gyi — Weightlifting Champion for Flyweight Division; Set record in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
    • U Aung Gyi — Academy U Kyauk Lone; Former Jail Officer; Son : Sway Tin (Kyauk Pyar)
    • U Aung Gyi Shwe (GBNF) — EE69er; GBNF; Secretary, RIT Track and Field; Soccer and Weightlifting
    • Saya U Aung Khin — First native Professor of Mechanical Engineering; BS and MS from Lehigh University and an MS from Canada; Wrote several articles for RIT Alumni Newsletter and HMEE; Gave the Go-ahead for SPZP-2000; Gave Keynote speech at the founding of Mechanical Engineering Association; Stays fit by playing Tennis and Golf
    • U Aung Khin (M67) — Multiple Sports Athlete; Represented RIT in Track & Field, Hiking, Soccer, Volleyball and Basketball
    U Aung Khin (EP68)
    • U Aung Khin (EP68) — Past VP of BASES; Advisor of selected monasteries and meditation centers
    U Aung Khin (A69)
    • U Aung Khin (A69) — Worked in Botswana; After retirement, moved to Seattle, Washington; Spouse : Daw Tin Tin Hla (A70)
    • U Aung Khin (SPHS63, GBNF) — DSA; PPIC; Two Kidney Transplants
    • U Aung Khin (RUBC, GBNF) — July 7th Victim
    • Dr. Aung Khin — BADA
    • Dr. Aung Khin — MOC
    • U Aung Khin Myint — Seafarer
    • Dr. Aung Khin Sint — Public Health
    • U Aung Khin Tint — Hluttaw
    • U Aung Khine (Stephen)
    • U Aung Ko
    • U Aung Koe
    • U Aung Kyee Myint (A70)
    • U Aung Kyi (Arthur, SPHS63)
    • U Aung Kyi Myint (SPHS63)
    • U Aung Kyaw (Peter, SPHS63) — Movies
    • Bo Aung Kyaw — Victim of 1938 Strike
    • U Aung Kyaw Myint (Eddie, SPHS63) — Transferred from Institute of Medicine to Rangoon Institute of Technology; Hobbies: Astrolog, Palmistry
    • H.E. U Aung Kyaw Myint — Escaped death when only one of the bombs set up at the Mausoleum by the North Korean agents went off.
    • U Aung Kyaw Myint — Attended computer classes at UCC; Worked on computer projects (e.g. Forest Reserve Inventory).
    • U Aung Kyaw Nyein (C69)
    • Dr. Aung Kyaw Nyunt (GBNF) — High School Luyechun
    • U Aung Kyaw Pe (EP69)
    • U Aung Kyaw Win — Son of Dr.Kyaw Win
    • Dr. Aung Kyaw Zaw (Johnny, SPHS63) — 9th in Burma in Matriculation of 1963
    • U Aung Kyaw Zaw — Son of Bogyoke Kyaw Zaw
    • U Aung Lin — Author
    • U Aung Lwin — Jasper
    • U Aung Lwin — Actor; Director
    • U Aung Min (M69) — Organizer of 69er Group; Chair of 69er HCF
    • U Aung Min (EC66)
    • U Aung Min (ChE70)

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    • U Aung Min (Pet73, GBNF)
    • U Aung Min — Physics Saya
    • Thakin Aung Min — Politician
    • Aung Min Gaung — Pagoda
    • U Aung Moung (M73, GBNF) — HMEE, SPZP, SDYF
    • Saya U Aung Myaing (ChE72) — Author; Poetic Art Series; MAChE
    • Saya U Aung Myint (M69) — RIT Mechanical Dept; Singapore Poly
    • Saya Aung Myint (Pet69) — RIT Saya; Cartoonist; Author; Publisher
    • U Aung Myint Maung
    • U Aung Myint Thwin
    • U Aung Myo
    • Dr. Aung Nyein (GBNF) — Radiologist
    • U Aung Pe
    • U Aung Pe Nyunt
    • Bogyoke Aung San
    • U Aung San — RIT B-Team Goalkeeper
    • U Aung San Oo
    • Aung San Lin (GBNF)
    • Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
    • U Aung San Win
    • Saya U Aung Sein — Mathematics
    • U Aung Shwe
    • U Aung Swe
    • U Aung Than
    • Dr. Aung Than — Rector, Dental College
    • U Aung Than
    • Dr. Aung Than Ba Tu — Director General, BMRI
    • U Aung Thaung — Tuition
    • U Aung Thaw — Archaeology
    • Dr. Aung Thein — Medical Superintendent, RGH
    • U Aung Thein — Banshay
    • Saya U Aung Thin — Author
    • Dr. Aung Thu
    • U Aung Thu
    • U Aung Thurein
    • U Aung Thu Yein
    • Dr. Aung Thwin — OG
    • U Aung Tin
    • U Aung Tin Oo — MOC
    • U Aung Toe
    • U Aung Zaw — UCC
    • U Aung Zaw Maung — UCC
    • U Aung Zaw Myint— UCC

  • Mg Mar Ga

    Four Bosses

    Patron

    U Wyn Htain Oo’s Mom

  • 69er GBNF

    by Hla Min

    Updated : May 2025

    GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten)

    138 ယောက် — 40% ခန့်

    Han Sein ဟန်စိန်

    • ရေကူး၊ Swimming, ဝါတာပိုလို၊ Water polo, ဒိုင်ဗင်၊ Diving, ဘတ်စကက်ဘော၊ Basketball
    • Prisoner of Conscience (17 years)

    Yi Pinn ရီပင်း / Maung Maung Kaung မောင်မောင်ကောင်း

    • ဇနီး Covid နဲ့ ဆုံး။ သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ခွင့်မရ။
    • နောက် တနှစ် အကြာ Covid နဲ့တုံး။

    69er ရွှေရတု GJ Dinner တစားပွဲဝိုင်းသား လေးယောက်

    • ကိုမြင့်နိုင် နဲ့ ဥမ္မာခင် ဖိတ်စာ ရ
    • သိန်းမောင်၊ မြင့်ဖေ၊ ခင်မောင်ကြီး၊ မောင်ထွန်း

    Aung Thu Yein အောင်သူရိန် (Brownie)

    • Paulian
    • 13th in Burma

    Myint Thein (Maung Gabar) / မြင့်သိန်း (မောင်ကမ္ဘာ)

    • Organizer, 69er Group
    • Annual Dinner — M3 Food Center

    Thein Swe သိန်းဆွေ

    • RIT Luyechun 3rd BE လူရည်ချွန်
    • Annotated EE69er photo

    Chit Tin ချစ်တင်

    MOC / MOGE

    Hla Shwe လှရွှေ

    • ချည်ထည် တွဲဖက်ပါမောက္ခ ငြိမ်း AP, Textile Engg

    Aung Myint အောင်မြင့် — ကိုကြံ့၊

    • RIT ကာတွန်း ဥက္ကဌ၊
    • Pet ကထိက ငြိမ်း

    Khin Maung Win ခင်မောင်ဝင်း (စာကလေး)

    • မြို့နယ် ကြက်တောင်
    • စိုင်းခမ်းပန် (Burma Selected, Badminton) ရဲ့ training partner
    • Mechanical Drawing ဂုဏ်ထူး

    Aung Gyi Shwe အောင်ကြီးရွှေ

    • RIT ပြေးခုန်ပစ် Track & Field အတွင်းရေးမှူး၊
    • အလေးမ၊ Weightlifting, ဘော်လုံး Soccer

    Kyaw Nyuntကျော်ညွန့်

    Tennis

    Nan Su Suနန်းစုစု

    Textile

    Aye Lwinအေးလွင်

    Secretary, RIT Mechanical Association

    Secretary, RIT Annual Magazine Committee

    Kyaw Tintကျော်တင့်

    Lecturer, Mining

    Kyaw Theinကျော်သိန်း

    Civil

    Tun Myintထွန်းမြင့်

    Mechanical

    Chit Po Po, ချစ်ပိုပို

    Nay Win, နေဝင်း

    Yi Pinn, ရီပင်း

    Khin Maung Gyi, ခင်မောင်ကြီး

    Mechanical

    Tobias Kittim Kuတိုဘီ

    Architecture

    Than Htwe သန်းထွေး

    San Lin (C69)

    • GBNF #82
    • April 5, 2018

    ဆက်နွယ် Related

    69er Health Care Fund (HCF)

    • Chair — အောင်မင်း Aung Min
    • Major Donors — မြင့်မြင့်၊ Myint Myint, ခင်မောင်ဦး (Ivan), စိန်မြင့် Sein Myint

    69er GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten)

    • Selected Disciplines

    Memories of a 69er

    • Article by Hla Min