Showcase 2019 in photos
View our image gallery from the School of Information Technology's official launch.
New IT school already at home in 4IR
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is not coming, it is already here, and the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) new School of Information Technology (IT) is already well positioned to prepare students, says its director Professor Ulrike Ri
Informatics student rewarded for housing app design
A second-year Informatics student was named as one of the three top winners in the Western Cape Government’s Homewise Youth Competition.
IS winning team donates prize money to help women and children
Every year, the Dept of Information Systems runs a competition as part of the final-year INF3012S course, and this year the winning team donated the prize money of R10 000 to the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children.
Meeting the growing demand for data scientists
The demand for data scientists has never been greater, but how does one become a “data scientist” and what is this new career all about?
Don't miss the 2019 School of IT Showcase
You are cordially invited to the 2019 School of IT Showcase at the University of Cape Town.
AI conference to come to Cape Town
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) is to host the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Cape Town in 2023 - the first time this prestigious conference will be held in Africa.
Learning for the future
High school learners were given a chance to tackle coding and robotics during the July school holiday in a one-week intensive programme run jointly by CodeSpace and UCT’s School of Information Technology (SIT).