In a world where computing power and computer skills are becoming ever more important, South Africa continues to punch above its weight – as University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Stellenbosch University (SU) students showed when they led Team South Africa to second prize in the prestigious International Supercomputing Competition in Frankfurt, Germany this month. […]
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) congratulates the South African supercomputing Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) team comprising of UWC’s “Team Youdubs” – Nicole Thomas, Eugene de Beste, Warren Jacobus and Saeed Natha – together with two others Ellen Nxala (Fort Hare University) and Pieter Malan (Stellenbosch University), for proudly representing South Africa and […]
Kamogelo Matjila was a stubborn girl from Alexandra, and it was that defiant attitude that took her places – from the Google head office in the US to the University of Warwick in the UK. Now the 21-year-old will be jetting off to Texas. This is because Matjila is a savvy dealer – in data. […]
The annual Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) is the continent’s leading ICT conference and draws some 400 delegates every year. This prestigious event is hosted under the auspices of Telkom and is the only conference of its kind that puts students, academics and government representatives under the same roof as specialists and […]
The Best Innovation for Social Impact award was based on the result of a TIA Seed Fund project just completed on the Zenzeleni project: designing a prototype for an easy-to-install solar panel bracket (just one screw driver and one spanner required) and a smart power management system to provide long battery life to community network devices, like […]