AI in Africa: It’s a matter of MIND
As the world races ahead with AI advancements, concerns are mounting that Africa could be left behind. Enter the Wits MIND Institute.
As the world races ahead with AI advancements, concerns are mounting that Africa could be left behind. Enter the Wits MIND Institute.
Twins and Wits alumni, Arthur and Charles Goldstuck, veterans of tech and music respectively, have registered for unique PhDs at Wits.
BCX, Alibaba Cloud and Wits University have partnered to empower students to foster skills for the digital economy in Africa.
The sixth annual prize-giving for the Maths Competition is more than a ceremony, it is a celebration of the significant impact that maths can have in Africa.
Researchers from Wits and the University of Edinburgh held a symposium to explore collaborative opportunities for Space Research projects.
Witsies dominate at the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) National Conference Student Cluster Competition.
Expert calls for development of a new kind of AI that is provably beneficial to humans
Professor Benjamin Rosman is one of 18 early-career researchers in the world to be named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars for 2022-2024.
The NRF has awarded new A-ratings to three Wits academics in the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Health Sciences respectively.
Inclusivity and diversity need to be at the level of identifying values and defining frameworks of what counts as ethical AI in the first place.
Numbers in tourism translate into revenue for the sector. Mathematicians are now number-crunching creatively to solve tourism challenges.
Several staff, students and alumni are featured in the 2021 Mail and Guardian Top 200 list of trailblazing young South Africans.
For the first time, a Wits University team will compete in the international RoboCup tournament.
Scholarships seek to increase diversity in the fields of machine learning and are aimed at students from backgrounds underrepresented in AI.
Top researchers and postgraduates convene virtually for the 2021 Mathematics in Industry Study Group (MISG).
We need new rules of engagement on social media – even if we don’t know it yet.
Despite Covid-19, Wits students won second place with their applications to aide analysis of Covid-19 data in the competition held online for the first time.
Professor Zeblon Vilakazi appointed as the Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal from 1 January 2021
New features added as inter disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration data on the pandemic grows.
New features added as inter disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration data on the pandemic grows.
The dashboard is aimed at informing government, scientists, the media and general public with quick, easy-to-understand information on the current situation.
“Investment in quantum technologies in South Africa is crucial if we want to leverage the next level of discovery research,” says Professor Zeblon Vilakazi.
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Humankind is facing an ever-growing data tsunami that could swamp us as a species – or provide us with unheard of opportunities.
In an increasingly data-driven world, are we just walking data sources for the benefit of giant multinational corporations?
Data are gathering in pools and lakes. As we dip our toes into these murky waters, we see a sign that says, ‘Here be dragons…’
A new generation of apps could soon help health professions to decode the causes of death, and predict the likelihood of dying.
The two-day workshop will be part of the National Conference of the Centre of High Performance Computing.
Prof. David Mason from the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics has dedicated his life to inspiring excellence and producing quality graduates.
The '4IR: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal Dimensions' conference explored the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
A rethink of operational processes as a complex system, and the application of machine learning as an adaptive analytical framework.
The Wits Research Office has recognised scholars at the University whom the National Research Foundation has (re)rated and those awarded nationally and at Wits.
The continent needs its own experts to harness Artificial Intelligence towards our local challenges and priorities in Africa.
Wits is the hub of a unique cross-disciplinary postgraduate e-Science training platform.
Our teams excel in Centre for High Performance Computing Student Cluster Competition.
Researchers map out regions where exoplanets can exist within triple star systems.
Four Witsies learn about cloud computing, then go on and beat the global competition in the field.
Q&A with Professor David Block from the Wits School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.