article  // 06 Dec 2018

UCT master’s student in Silicon Valley

As one of five South African emerging leaders on the TechWomen programme, an initiative of the United States Department of States’ Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, University of Cape Town (UCT) master’s student Wiebke Toussa
article  // 29 Nov 2018

Tashiv Sewpersad: masters

Always passionate about technology, Tashiv Sewpersad won the Best student in Honours award for 2017 and is now tackling a masters by dissertation only.
article  // 28 Nov 2018

AFIRM come to Cape Town in January

African students and researchers are called to participate in the First Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search, sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGKDD, hosted at the University of Cape Town, and presented by leading internationa
article  // 23 Nov 2018

Alberto Tagliaro: masters

Lifelong learning is important to Alberto Tagliaro, who as a mature student, is pursuing a Master’s in Information Technology through the Department of Computer Science.
article  // 07 Nov 2018

Michael Harrison: masters

Although he enjoyed IT at school, Michael Harrison never thought he would be studying towards a master’s degree in computer science, but he found the allure of artificial intelligence hard to resist.
article  // 30 Oct 2018

Nasiha Ally: honours

The honours year has been a good one for Nasiha Ally: she was part of the team that won the national hackathon and she has already found a job, starting just a week after her last exam.
article  // 29 Oct 2018

Making IT a good space for women

The Girl’s Lounge, in the School of IT’s Ubunifu Lab, hosted a busy afternoon on October 25 with female students learning how to succeed in the IT/IS space. The workshop included a panel discussion, CV Workshop and head shots taken for the