Wits University has been recognised as the top-ranked university in Sub-Saharan Africa for innovation performance in the 2025 Global Innovation Index (GII).
The Bachelor of Science Honours (BScHons) and the Master of Science (MSc) in Cybersecurity will be offered from 2026.
How Africa’s invisible digital labour is fuelling the AI revolution and why it’s time to confront the human cost.
Produced by the Wits Innovation Centre, the series explores what innovation looks like beyond the boundaries and expectations imposed on this important concept.
Seven high-growth tech companies selected to receive up to €10,000.00 in grant funding, a pre-acceleration program and a fully-funded business immersion week.
Wits Innovation Centre (WIC) studied how to better support and develop young agripreneurs in South Africa.
With growing global attention, SA’s local studios are redefining ownership, asserting creative agency and keeping intellectual property.
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Artificial Intelligence is inspiring African architects to build, create and explore with traditional knowledge that spans generations.
Digital access is expanding fast across South Africa, but without basic literacy, can it truly empower?
Tebogo Machethe and Thandeka Mhlanga recently joined the Wits Innovation Centre.
Guests at Blaauwberg Beach Hotel in Cape Town experience how Wits research powers a new AI air quality system.
In a world dictated by data, scale and speed, the Wits MIND Institute prioritises the human being.
This year is the International Year of Quantum, and Wits researchers are making extraordinary contributions to the field.
New interactive tool to bridge Africa's critical data gap for sustainable development.
Wits, UCT, partner with the CISPA Helmholtz-Center for Information Security to drive research into cybersecurity and trustworthy AI.
The Carnegie Mellon University Africa-led network has awarded almost $7.43M in research funding since it was established in 2022.
High-performance computing gear gives students a real-world training edge.
Africa’s digital creativity is poised to generate its own momentum as the annual Festival takes place from 7 to 10 October 2025.
As G20 president, South Africa can highlight the importance of digital sovereignty for ensuring dignity, economic justice, and resilience.
New paper presents a new legal and commercial framework for AI-generated music.
The project aims to support ground-breaking music ideas that harness AI and champion African creativity, and build new futures for AI in music.
The Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute has been awarded core funding of US$1 million by Google.org.
In remembering South Africa’s Grand Geek lies a legacy that shows us how we should think about and engage with artificial intelligence.
"We will be able to quickly solve very hard problems in fields such as chemistry, pharmacology, logistics, finance and many more," says Professor Andrew Forbes.
Lessons from Westbury, Johannesburg, show that technology must be controlled by the community and enhance people’s daily lives.
Scientific innovation offers new weapon against rhino poaching, by making rhino horns detectable and traceable.
The Wits Innovation Centre recently held its annual Entrepreneurship / Prospector @Wits workshop.
Tech startups in South Africa are reminded that the window to enter the Irish Tech Challenge 2025 (ITCSA) is about to close on 4 August 2025.
This is a bad idea. African nations need to negotiate contracts that ensure they hold on to the power their resources bring.
Professor Benjamin Rosman has been appointed a Fellow of the prestigious CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains programme.
Forbes shares the honours with UCT's Professor Anthony Figaji as recipients of a dual award for 2025.
Wits-developed SmartSpot has become an innovative tool in TB testing, making diagnostics safer, faster, and more accessible.
Wits and the University of Edinburgh join forces with a new research Chair in Digital Humanities to shape more inclusive, just, and equitable digital futures.
A pioneering solar power solution co-developed with Wits University is transforming access to energy in underserved communities, one “Power Brick” at a time.
The high-profile delegation from the Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment (SSCI) visited to identify potential key strategic partnerships.
Electric vehicles are expensive and yet to take off in South Africa. Wind and solar powered battery swapping stations could help motorists make the switch.
This field is evolving rapidly and the education sector, for one, is abuzz with discussion on AI use for writing.
Wits’ RAIL Lab trains intelligent machines to navigate caves, pour milk, and plan like humans, pushing the frontiers of autonomous AI research.
Artist-in-residence Fellow brings sound innovation to School of Architecture and Planning
Wits University is set to benefit from the second instalment of the University Technology Fund (UTF), meaning more innovation is on its way.
South Africa has the opportunity to build a model of digital transformation that strengthens public institutions rather than diminishes them.
There’s a certain kind of energy that builds before something truly powerful happens. This year’s Fak’ugesi Festival is taking shape.
Cox earned the rating for his work in research and developing cutting-edge structured light and low-cost laser internet.
The Bezos Earth Fund’s AI Grand Challenge for Climate and Nature has awarded the grant to the Wits Climate Risk Modelling project.
Scientists on the African continent have made notable contributions to photonics research.
Scientists win prestigious international award for pioneering a biodegradable, Africa-sourced ingredient that could transform the future of vaccine production.
The solution demands two simple and clear actions: declare that photo manipulation has taken place and disclose what manipulation was carried out.
Producing knowledge is a daily pursuit at universities — knowing how best to protect and draw value from it is crucial.
South Africa must shift from finding new blood donors to building relationships with existing ones. Technology can help.
Announcement by Professor Lynn Morris, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation on the way forward for the WIC.
The rise of AI in journalism signals the time for guidelines around disclosure, transparency and accountability.
The digital revolution has opened unimagined opportunities, but it comes with a threat of leaving the most vulnerable workers behind.
With a disastrously high unemployment rate and inequality, South Africa has a mountain to climb, but there is hope.
Letting employees use their own devices such as laptops and phones for work has many benefits – and many risks, too.
Students and staff from all South African public universities can now access free wi-fi at 36 libraries owned by the City of Johannesburg.
What is the future of humans in the world of AI? We look at the myths and realities, risks and opportunities posed by the adoption of AI.
Are we adequately training young people for the labour market, or do we need to review our approach to education and training?
Whether we’re socialising, shopping, banking, studying or working, billions of people around the world spend hours each day online.
It was a year of establishment and growth for the Wits Innovation Centre (WIC) as it broke new ground to coordinate and encourage innovation across Wits.
WIC’s new Artist-in-Lab Fellow aims to create evocative art exploring the mysterious, inexplicable, and magical essence of lightning.
South African Atmospheric Quality Monitoring (SACAQM) and Evotel join forces to monitor the province’s air quality.
Innovative computing system using lasers and everyday display technology marks a significant leap in the quest for more powerful quantum computing solutions.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa announced today that it will expand its digital public infrastructure initiative across the continent.
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa believes South Africa’s traditional media is strong, but that won’t last, posing an ongoing threat to democracy.
The Wits Innovation Centre (WIC) partnered with Afretec to workshop practical steps of collaboration.
The Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute advances AI research, exploring machine, human, and animal intelligence.
After major refurbishments, the old Johannesburg Planetarium has been transformed into the state-of-the-art Wits Anglo American Digital Dome.
After 64 years, the Johannesburg Planetarium has been upgraded featuring new cutting-edge digital projectors that will enhance its role in science education.
The workshop gave scholars insights that empowered them to create AI-powered solutions for Africa’s most pressing challenges.
A business-centric approach can overshadow the broader goals of social and environmental sustainability.
EIE Open Day 2024: Can a robot do medical triage? Can a face detector spot you when you’re wearing a mask? Can geysers be smart?
Four young South African 2D animators train with the world’s best to become teachers for a new generation.
Swelihle Sibiya and Andile Mgomezulu won the R&D Challenge and the Huawei Challenge respectively, at the 2024 SATNAC Industry Solutions Challenge.
The Kuamsha app was developed as part of a study to address depression in adolescents in rural and low resource settings.
Fak’ugesi Festival unleashes the potential that lies within communities when technology, art, and culture intersect in Africa.
This year Fak’ugesi #UntilUnlocked celebrates the exciting expansion of African digital creativity.
Africa’s biggest creative digital innovation festival is from 3 – 5 October 2024 at Wits’ Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct.
The water dashboard will help residents to keep track of shortages and repair issues and help to understand just how bad things are.
Dynamic student teams wowed judges, presenting innovative solutions to pressing social and environmental issues.
As the world races ahead with AI advancements, concerns are mounting that Africa could be left behind. Enter the Wits MIND Institute.
The parties aim to fast-track digital skills development for policymakers and ICT professionals.
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Alumni Luca Pontiggia & Yasheen Modi present HIDDEN GIANTS, a talk about black holes, the unseeable giants in our Universe, accompanied by live original music.
These reflect the Wits Innovation Centre's agility and responsiveness in continuing to grow the University’s innovation ecosystem.
A team of particle physicists have rolled out the first inexpensive South African air quality monitoring system using AI to predict areas of high pollution.
The Foundation looks to reshape discussions about democracy in Africa.
Philosophical, legal, moral, teaching and other angles unpacked at Wits SARIMA Carnegie 4th annual Global Ethics Day online event on 6 August.
Aspiring African innovators and entrepreneurs converge at Wits to learn skills to transform ideas into market-ready solutions.
The pioneering technology from Wits is transforming energy access with its new impact-driven Champion Franchise Model.
Catching online scammers: Our model combines data and behavioural science.
Novel way to map spread and evolution of pathogens, and their responses to vaccines and antibiotics, reveals how to help predict and prevent future outbreaks.
Dr Solomon Assefa, the former Vice President at IBM Research, delivered the inaugural Professor Barry Dwolatzky Memorial Lecture.
One of the grant recipient projects from Wits University will investigate the role of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In a critical global public health development, a candidate vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) has been created using a gene-editing approach.
The question has shifted from whether cyberattacks will occur to when and how they will happen.
This addition marks a significant step forward in the ongoing efforts to preserve the University's vast archives and collections.
New Hub will be a place where researchers, entrepreneurs and professionals can get together to leverage technology to solve problems in the field of finance.
By awarding Wits researchers for their contribution to IP rights, the event highlights the integration of innovation and creativity for a shared future.
Many existing explainable artificial intelligence systems produce explanations that are tailored to individualist, typically western, populations.
Africa’s market share of the digital trade globally is small. But it has expanded rapidly, outpacing the global average.
Representatives from Gauteng feeder schools recently attended Wits University's annual Principals’ Function to recognise outstanding school principals.
There are 14 solar installations across Wits to promote environmental and financial sustainability. This is in addition to the hybrid hot water system.
Benches hardly spark conversations but the new benches on campus are hitting the right notes with students.
The Tech Challenge seeks to foster partnerships between South African and Irish startups.
2023 will be remembered as the year that artificial intelligence (AI) – or, more specifically, large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT – changed the world.
Pelebox founder, Neo Hutiri, is one of the five winners of the Irish Tech Challenge - a prestigious competition seeking to unearth high-impact SA start-ups.
Digging for the truth has become easier and far more convenient, but distinguishing fact from fake has become more complicated in the digitised world.
One criticism of current 3D models of archaeological sites is that they are presented devoid of human traces and history. We captured the spirit with our model.
8 Postdoc Fellows join Wits to boost research on the intersecting themes of climate change, just transition, sustainability, and inequality.
This experimental milestone allows for the preservation of quantum information even when entanglement is fragile.
Wits students among top teams at the Sustainathon 2023, bringing home great prizes.
Academia can help show how the cannabis industry can be a thriving sector in the country.
New biotechnical treatments can fast-track recovery from traumatic injuries.
SA visionary and quantum expert, Dr Isaac Nape, has been appointed as the inaugural Chair that seeks to advance quantum research.
Researchers show for the first time, how we can transport images across a network without physically sending the image.
Advanced 3D imaging technology allows for fossil-bearing rocks to be examined non-invasively and saves time and resources.
Researchers explore whether Dark Matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles.
The Summit is another step forward in developing mining tech and skills to drive a low-carbon future and just energy transition.
A virtual feast of Africa’s best creative showcases, digital workshops, talks, music, and digital art exhibitions
Graduates and third year students encouraged to apply now for the new PG Diploma to drive business ownership and job creation.
Wits workshop on Learning and Teaching debates responsibility, equity, and access of generative AI in Higher Education.
Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform use the national science fair to interact with future generation of scientists, healthcare professionals, and innovators.
NeuRL’s Immersive Virtual Reality Lab uses innovative body owner illusions to understand cross-cultural bias.
Researchers from Wits and the University of Edinburgh held a symposium to explore collaborative opportunities for Space Research projects.
The next generation is essential to Africa's future and to global shared interests in creating a safer, healthier, and more prosperous world.
Enhanced human verification techniques and practices will always be required to ensure accuracy and ward off inherent biases.
A new approach to optical communication that can be deployed with conventional technology.
South Africa has lost an innovator, a strategist, a humanitarian, and a much-loved Professor who dedicated over 50 years of his life to Wits.
The WIC will harness the creativity and ingenuity of the University’s rich, diverse community of innovators to solve complex, real-world problems.
Wits University awarded Dr David Fine an honorary degree at the Faculty of Science graduation ceremony on 17 April 2023.
The first Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Course sparks a new era for #WitsInnovation.
The Pecogrid pilot study will examine the viability of the large-scale rollout of microgrid inverter systems in informal communities.
Professor Lynn Morris and Professor Bavesh Kana will advise government on how to harness and grow innovation.
Telkom and Wits sign a partnership agreement to establish the new Telkom Industry Solutions Lab.
He is one of 10 exceptional early-career members selected from around the world to serve as a 2023 Optical Foundation Ambassador.
Dr Adam Pantanowitz has been appointed as Chair in Innovation and Director of the WIC, and Letlotlo Phohole as Senior Programme Manager.
Professor Andrew Forbes shares the award for physics with Professor Jueinai Kwo of Taiwan.
Wits University and Anglo American to transform the Johannesburg Planetarium into a world-class digital research, training, and science engagement facility.
In the face of a decline in traditional union membership, it’s critical to focus on where resistance is taking place, rather than where it is not.
Wits Professor of Pharmacy, Yahya Choonara, is the 2022 FIP Distinguished Pharmaceutical Science Award winner.
4th year engineering students show off their bold and visionary solutions with amazing final-year projects.
Emeritus Professor Barry Dwolatzky launches inspirational memoir, smartly capturing his less-than-ordinary coded history.
The new unit at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) is both a robotics research opportunity and a global responsibility.
Africa’s first Digital Creativity Awards brings a sense of wonder and applauds the meteoric rise of African creativity in the digital space.
The South African Quantum Technologies Initiative (SA QuTI) aims develop a well-established critical mass in the national quantum community.
The Afretec network has made 20 million US dollars available to members, including Wits, to collaborate in engineering and technology.
The number of SA employers reporting they are recruiting ICT skills overseas has increased dramatically in the past year – up from 38% to over 50%.
Various innovations after the past century have improved the world for many - but there’s still much more for universities to do.
Wits' research magazine celebrates 100 years of changing the world for good.
Guest Editorial: Wits remains a beacon of hope in society. We continue to strive for excellence in all that we do and use our knowledge for the good of society.
Editorial: The stories in Curios.ty 14: #Wits100 showcase the University’s sustained participation, influence and impact in the lab, the classroom, and society.
It’s the end of an era as Wits Planetarium is reimagined as a ‘out of this world’ digital dome.
The development of the Wits Face Database: An African database of high-resolution facial photographs.
Joint hybrid conferences for African civic tech innovators and media makers, journalism innovators, and other creatives.
Expert calls for development of a new kind of AI that is provably beneficial to humans
Happening from 13 - 21 October, this year's digital innovation festival returns to its home at Wits' Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct in Braamfontein.
South Africa should ensure that changes to energy-efficient vehicles are done in a way that creates jobs and protects workers.
Pasha Podcast: Innovation in the digital space is not necessarily working for people in the global south.
A showcase of local neuroscience talent was on display by Wits NeuRL and collaborators at the recent #Wits100 event.
Wits University is home to a wellspring of talent from multiple disciplines where life-changing innovation is incubated.
Digital platform work is often seen to suit workers’ skills, interests and schedules. But it comes at a cost to their economic security and control.
The decision further delays migration to digital broadcasting and places strain on the urgently needed bandwidth for mobile data.
The impact of hybrid work models on IT skills in South Africa will be among the issues coming under the spotlight this year.
Astronomers have revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) and Wits University launch FabLab.
Wits has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition, a charitable foundation that supports digital preservation with a view to a secure digital legacy.
Programme aims to identify African ecosystem vulnerabilities while leveraging African-informed transformative change opportunities.
Study of tweets in Kenya and South Africa shows online rage towards white communities and privileged classes can be read as fatigue with the postcolonial state.
Alumnus Dr David Fine's generous donation will be used to establish the Angela and David Fine Chair in Innovation.
Albert Sharra, recipient of the Commonwealth Split-site scholarship, focuses on digital political activism and people power.
Gender-based violence and femicide is a pandemic more insidious and endemic than a virus – how technology can help combat and prevent it.
Gender portrayals in animated films have come a long way, which is important, as animation can be a tool for positive social change.
The Wits Entrepreneurship Clinic gets going with programme to drive innovation and entrepreneurship.
Professor Andrew Forbes recognised for his outstanding leadership in founding and growing an optics and photonics community in Africa.
This is not an alternative to traditional disease surveillance, but a complementary tool.
New research project will explore ways to protect the personal health data of African app users.
A researcher and lecturer in the Wits School of Education has begun 2022 with three high-profile achievements.
Wits team develops social distancing and shopper behaviour tracker for malls.
Team of experts help search for metals and minerals needed to meet the tech demands of an evolving world.
It’s time to take on the tech giants to sustain media and journalism - you can use competition laws against the likes of Facebook.
With the year drawing to a close, many people will be wondering what books they may have missed out on in 2021.
“Quantum entanglement” is one of several plot devices that crops up in modern sci-fi movies.
Wits, UJ, government and the telecoms sector join forces to close the digital divide.
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.
Wits leads efforts to develop low-cost, long-range free-space optics that can connect informal settlement communities to high-speed internet.
The new Wits Entrepreneurship Clinic will form part of the Innovation for African Universities Project that will drive economic development.
Professor Barry Dwolatzky explains what gamification in learning is and how it is on a path to change the future of higher education.
The 2021 ICT Skills Survey results were released on 28 September 2021.
Survey shows a shift to the gig economy has not occurred in SA, but it's plausible that this might change in future.
JSCE-IITPSA ICT Skills Survey results will be released on 28 September 2021.
#DIYAfrica 2021 creates space for Africans to “Do It Yourself” and realise the potential of new and emerging technologies to bring about change.
The South African Quantum Technology Initiative (SA QuTI) aims to drive local quantum technology research and innovation.
The AI Africa Consortium partners with Cirrus AI to bring large-scale AI infrastructure capacity and expertise to the African research community and industry.
DEHN AFRICA donates R500 000 to the Johannesburg Lightning Research Laboratory at Wits University to support pioneering research in lightning protections.
A new and fast tool for quantum computing and communication.
Our cutting-edge research offers #Solutions to some of the most challenging problems facing society today.
Editorial: From solutions to the structural, political, and socioeconomic challenges in South Africa, to those ‘moonshot moments’ that advance society for good.
Games from the Game Design programme at the Wits School of Digital Arts tell important stories, and allow for solutions to many real-world problems.
Can online platforms help therapists and tutors transform teaching and care beyond the pandemic?
Photographing a black hole in space, 55 million light years from Earth, seems an impossible task but scientists went to unprecedented lengths to achieve this.
In search of ways to help his father recover from injuries suffered in a motorbike accident, Nabeel Vandayar enrolled at Wits to study medicine.
Some scholars consider these ‘liberating technologies’ because they empower citizens to speak back to power and hold leaders accountable.
Professor Barry Dwolatzky has been contracted as Director of Innovation Strategy.
Wits and HUST researchers report a new form of the Doppler effect.
Wits Pharmacy graduates were awarded seed funding for their automated, antimicrobial-surface coated pill-dispensing innovation, Ra-Pill.
This year’s Fak’ugesi Festival will be a hybrid event and takes place from 14 to 24 October 2021.
For the first time, a Wits University team will compete in the international RoboCup tournament.
Wits University’s future hub of Quantum Technology is switched on.
WitsQ will provide first a forum for quantum scientists in all fields across the continent to connect.
The JCSE-IITPSA Skills Survey assesses skills demand and supply from both a corporate and practitioner perspective.
An innovative maths WhatsApp hotline threw high school teens an educational lifeline during 2020.
Two master’s students are developing new technologies aimed at disrupting the booming cannabis, or so called ‘green gold’, industry.
The team, led by Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, will lead Africa’s effort to advance artificial intelligence research and its application across the continent.
Digital transformation: Technology shouldn’t be a source of fear, but rather an ally and key business tool.
Digital content creators called to participate in fully online DLA#5.
Huge gap between SA's 4IR strategy and what commission recommends
Mining's immediate future is to be impacted not just by economic cycles or established trends, but by structural issues demanding urgent and deep innovation.
Considerations behind the largest and most complex undertaking of its kind in Africa’s history.
Gauteng Government, IBM Research and Wits University are fighting the pandemic with artificial intelligence.
The International Development and Research Centre (IDRC) grants $1.25 Million to the project.
Register for postgraduate study at Wits University and be part of the future of exciting possibilities.
Commitments focus on innovation and the creative engagement with new technologies.
Wits, Huawei and rain jointly launch Africa's first 5G laboratory at the Wits Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct.
Highly anticipated and specially curated Fak’ugesi Arcade programme unveiled.
The 2020 Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival will run for one month from 20 October to 20 November 2020.
The discovery of triplet spin superconductivity in diamonds has the potential to revolutionise the high-tech industry.
A virtual feast of Africa’s best creative digital workshops, talks, pitches and digital art exhibitions.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore just how endemic corruption has become.
Digital divides ensure that only 11% of households have access to the internet.
Pasha 80: Fighting the coronavirus can put severe strain on a person’s mental health.
The Gauteng Province has been using data and cloud technologies to monitor and respond to Covid-19, and now they are sharing access with the public.
Wits student, Musawenkosi Nyati has published an award-winning book, Mobile App Development.
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.
South Africa lags behind the rest of the world when it comes to embracing the digital economy.
Wits Researchers demonstrate a new quantum approach for sharing a secret amongst many parties, setting a new record for the highest dimensions and parties.
Kenya's new internet balloons could help to get more Kenyans online and drive new industry.
Increased capital investment and productivity need not result in job losses. Industrial policy can link investment incentives to job preservation and creation.
Professor Zeblon Vilakazi appointed as the Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal from 1 January 2021
The most profound change is the accelerated of way in which digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have moved at warp speed.
Wits Master’s students create best practice guide for efficient and accurate use of DMDs in structured light laboratories.
Join South Africa’s Grand Geek’ and leading digital experts as they explore Africa’s Digital Future.
New features added as inter disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration data on the pandemic grows.
Students will get 30GB of data if registered on MTN, Vodacom, Cell C or Telkom.
Wits will commence with emergency remote online teaching and learning from Monday, 20 April 2020.
This communique outlines the process through which students who require assistance with a loan device can apply.
Wits institutes an emergency remote teaching and learning programme as one measure to help minimise the time lost in the academic project.
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.
Team visits Jemstech to view progress on first SA-made prototype for Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS Detector at CERN.
A team from Wits (South Africa) and HUST (China) show that multi-dimensional quantum communications with twisted light is possible down legacy fibre networks.
The digital economy will, soon, become the ordinary economy as the uptake - and application - of digital technologies in every sector in the world grows.
“Investment in quantum technologies in South Africa is crucial if we want to leverage the next level of discovery research,” says Professor Zeblon Vilakazi.
Top marks are due for a bionic hand engineered by Wits University postgraduates, who have made mobility more accessible to the 1 million amputees in SA.
PeCo Power, a new spin-off company, is a home-grown electrical off-grid solution that will radically change lives and impact local communities.
The 10th ICT Skills Survey shows that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is still waiting in the wings.
The eighth issue of Wits University’s research magazine, Curios.ty is themed: #Code, and is available download or read online.
EDITORIAL: It is only through understanding yesterday that we can shape today and create tomorrow.
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…’
Preparing for a digital revolution is as much about getting the basics right as it is looking to the future.
Craftivists have been savvy cryptographers for aeons longer than any computing geek.
Gene therapy – there is a long road ahead to mainstream techniques and ensure that the technology is cost-effective.
A new generation of apps could soon help health professions to decode the causes of death, and predict the likelihood of dying.
The first Earth System Model developed and based in Africa are creating one of the most reliable and most detailed modulations of climate change.
PhD candidate Shivan Parusnath plans to use social media and machine learning to help stop illegal reptile trade on global scale.
Speaking to visitors from outer space would one day require a common language and one not found in a dictionary.
COLUMN: Data domination by Big Tech, both nationally and internationally, has ominous implications for economies – and privacy.
The University bought its first computer from IBM 59 years ago. Today, Wits and IBM are partners in quantum computing.
The two-day workshop will be part of the National Conference of the Centre of High Performance Computing.
Low-cost titanium alloys in South Africa could be used in non-aerospace sectors, such as car parts, medical devices, implants, jewellery and kitchen appliances.
Quantum mechanics is embracing patterns of light to create an alphabet that can be leveraged to build a light-based quantum network.
The WitsQ Quantum Computing Summer School takes place from 2 - 10 December at the Science Stadium.
The eighth issue of Wits University’s research magazine, Curios.ty is themed: #Code, and is available download or read online.
Wits academic Michael Lucas took top honours at the International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control in Switzerland, 10-13 September 2019.
"Wits and Tshimologong are the pioneers driving Gauteng to a modern economy in the new age of the digital revolution," said Premier David Makhuru.
The '4IR: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal Dimensions' conference explored the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
Africans should be the contributors, shapers and owners of the coming advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, says Professor Zeblon Vilakazi.
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Cross-sector digital creative technology at 2019 Fak’ugesi Festival – Africa’s best creative digital workshops, talks, pitches and digital art exhibitions
The 2019 Fak’ugesi Festival has partnered with the City of Johannesburg’s Smart Cities Office to bring an exciting African-centric programme line-up.
Cultural Economies Conference at 2019 Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival.
What do you need to become a superhero? Certainly not superpowers, we can all be superheroes according to a team of Witsies.
Major machine learning research initiative will serve as a model for innovation and growth in Africa.
Eye-gaze devices as assistive tech have the potential to empower people with disabilities by improving their independence at home.
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Sibanye-Stillwater has donated their 2D/3D reflection seismic data worth R50m to the Wits Seismic Research Centre of the School of Geosciences.
Technology and surveillance cause a sense of moral panic, but such scrutiny has the potential to enhance society.
The roles and practices of companies like Google and Facebook must be investigated.
Huawei South Africa has donated almost 2 million in scholarships to ICT and Engineering postgraduate students at Wits.
Students in the School of Therapeutic Sciences and the School of Education at Wits competed to build a world in online game, Minecraft.
The third international LCT (Legitimation Code Theory) conference hosted at Wits was huge success with 160 delegates in attendance and 98 papers presented.
There is more and more research being produced around the world every day. In total, about 3 million articles are published every year.
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the keynote address at South Africa’s first #4IRSA Digital Economy Summit.
Quantum technologies are exploding and no longer the purview of laboratory experiments only.
Wits students are part of South African team to take first prize at the International Supercomputing Conference.
IBM expands its quantum computing program with Wits as its first partner in Africa on the IBM Q Network.
With rapid progress over the last couple of decades we are entering a new era of computing and Africa needs to act now.
Leading Chinese telecommunications company injects more than R1 million towards student funding at Wits.
Huawei South Africa has launched free 5G training for ICT postgraduates at Wits University.
The potential capabilities afforded by digital technologies should not be ignored in the current stage of design of the future government administration.
A rethink of operational processes as a complex system, and the application of machine learning as an adaptive analytical framework.
Petroleum Experts Ltd has donated an academic software licence worth R25m to the School of Geosciences.
Sibanye-Stillwater commits additional R30 million to further mining 4.0 research and development.
"We are the pioneers who can reimagine how digital innovation can transform our world.”
Artificial Intelligence will be maturing over the next 18 months with Africa becoming ground zero for 4IR disruption.
South Africa 4IR-readiness and the case for tech-savvy artisans.
The continent needs its own experts to harness Artificial Intelligence towards our local challenges and priorities in Africa.
Academics and business must partner to help government understand what skills pupils and workers require for 4IR.
Wits science students have created an app to teach people the basics about genetics.
Research by Wits biomedical engineers that incorporates the human brain as part of a computer network is believed to be a world-first.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Partnership for South Africa (#4IRSA) hosts a Digital Economy Summit in Johannesburg in June 2019.
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.
High levels of screen time, among babies, children and adolescents, are associated with potential harm.
Wits researchers prove the long-held theory by making the first direct observation of fractal light from lasers.
It is not the robots that will take our jobs but a crisis of imagination and leadership, says futurist Valter Adão.
Team confirms a 20-year-old prediction that “nature’s geometry” could be recreated by the use of laser technology.
Wits physicists demonstrate a new device for manipulating and moving tiny objects with light.
Collaboration on Fundamental Physics celebrates a decade, of among others, Wits’ involvement in accelerated technology development.
First round table set the stage for South Africa to formulate a collective response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Digital technologies to boost skills and transform South Africa’s mining processes.
Why we should stop chasing the Silicon Valley dream and rethink what Africa needs, especially in the incubator space.
The outcomes from the 2018 Fak’ugesi Festival and collaboration with the Wits Art Museum will be shown on Digital Imaginaries: Africas in Production in Germany.
Wits University’s has released a new online course aimed specifically at IT and business professionals.
An understanding of the interaction of humans with technology and technology with humans are key to grasp the impact of the fourth industrial revolution.
Automatic control is a technology that modern society cannot live without.
Wits University has added two new courses to its free, online WitsX/edX learning platform.
A lecturer in the Wits School of Therapeutic Sciences was in the top three vying in Learning Idols at the Learning Innovation Africa Conference 2018.
Creating a collective memory in a country with a fragmented past and persistent inequality needs money, skills and political will to preserve its history.
IBM SA and Wits’ Tshimologong Precinct launch six week acceleration bootcamp for startups.
Wits, UJ, Fort Hare and Telkom to develop a national response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution that could shape the futures of South Africa.
Final year engineering showcased their design-and-build projects which provided solutions to everyday life challenges.
Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival announces its 2018 line-up.
Hundreds descended upon Wits to hear the legendary Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group, address entrepreneurs, students and policy makers.
Technological advances are reshaping our lives, and our policies should be designed to enhance its creative and empowering potential.
A cash prize of $10,000 has been awarded to Wits students for their winning travel idea.
Wits physicists and engineers team up to tackle Africa’s digital divide with home grown technologies
Entrepreneurs at the Wits Digital Tshimologong Precinct show Johannesburg Executive Mayor, Herman Mashaba how creative they are.
From slow sand filters and to towers that measure energy and gases.
Bruce Mellado, National Contact Physicist of South Africa at the ATLAS experiment at CERN, says there are future plans for a bigger, better LHC.
Wits robotics researcher awarded Africa’s only grant in the 2017 round of the Google Faculty Research Awards.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that kills more people due to a bacterial infection than any other disease in the world.
Celebrating the research of the new Sibanye-Stillwater Digital Mining Laboratory (DigiMine) at Wits University.
LiDAR, was used to “redraw” the remains of the city, along the lower western slopes of the Suikerbosrand hills near Johannesburg.
Wits Business School (WBS) is excited to have launched its first executive education programme in Digital Business, the first of its kind in South Africa.
Wits students contribute to the upgrade of the high-tech software and hardware at the CERN ATLAS detector.
Cryptocurrencies originated as an alternative payment mechanism to traditional currencies.
Professor Zeblon Vilakazi’s editorial in the latest issue of Curiosity, Wits’ new research magazine:
Research into optics and photonics by Wits physicists has been highlighted as some of the most influential in 2017.
South Africa has made tremendous advances in providing lifesaving antiretroviral therapy for HIV infected people.
The ‘Brainternet’, robotic arm, mosquito repeller, adaptive digital hearing aid, leaf recognition software – our future engineers show their stuff.
Lesley Williams will head up the tech precinct and help it to achieve its full potential.
Programme will create opportunities for students in a variety of fields to gain an interdisciplinary perspective on the emerging fields of Data Science.
The bones of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, like every industrial revolution in the past, come from the dirt under our feet.
Wits alumnus, Elash Mistry was elated when he became the first blind person in Africa to be admitted as a fellow of the Actuarial Society of SA in 2017.
Digital access itself does not untangle past inequalities. In many cases, it may even increase inequality.
The launch of a high-tech eZone, eFundanathi – “Learn with Us”, is set to revolutionise teaching and learning at Wits.
Tech advances are already impacting skilled white-collar and unskilled workers whereas the digital revolution affected mainly semi-skilled, blue-collar workers.
In 2011, a faceless, emotionless voice named Watson famously defeated two of the greatest champions of Jeopardy!, an American TV gameshow.
Technique paves the way for high-bit-rate secure long distance quantum communication.
More digital avenues are being added to South Africa’s museums – and now the country has its first full VR exhibit.
The rise of big data and advances in information technology has serious implications for our ability to deliver sufficient bandwidth to meet the growing demand.
In a world controlled and dominated by robots, is there still space for humans?
Wits scientists have developed technology that ensures the efficacy of equipment that tests for tuberculosis (TB).
In research thought to be a world first, biomedical engineers at Wits are connecting a human brain to the internet in real time.
Origin Centre's new Virtual Reality experience uses state of the art communications technology to tell the story of what makes us human.
Is tech killing indigenous African languages? Prof. Leketi Makalela, head of Languages, Literacies and Literatures in the Wits School of Education talks back.
Biomedical engineers at Wits are researching how brainwaves can be used to control a robotic prosthetic hand.
There are over 300 tech hubs in Africa and maybe 52 or more in South Africa, one of which is the Wits Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct in Braamfontein.
Hanli Geyser, head of Game Design in Digital Arts in the School of Arts at Wits, doesn’t like being called a 'gamer'.
The Indaba will bring leaders in machine learning and artificial intelligence to Wits University to teach and mentor students, researchers and entrepreneurs.
Professor Brian Armstrong appointed to head up WBS/Telkom Chair in Digital Business.
The Journalism and Media Accelerator (JAMLAB) will be home to innovators who want to develop new forms of journalism.
Abandon the naive thought that, with the internet and free flow of information, governments are retreating from repression of the media.
International scientists share knowledge with SA students and industry at a workshop, dedicated to the CERN electronics upgrade.
New laboratory will work closely with the University of Johannesburg to offer southern African scientists a local solution for isotope analysis.
The Academy of Science of South Africa has identified Prof. Keith Breckenridge as the winner of its Humanities Book Award for his book on the Biometric State.
Baron Franz Nopcsa, a particularly colourful figure in the history of palaeontology, was right.
Are you up for Wits’ first Digital Innovation Challenge? Do you have the smarts and skills in location technology?
Biostatistics is the analysis and interpretation of data generated in the biological and health sciences to inform clinical or health policy and practice.
Professor Ronald Wall is an economic geographer and urban planner and the Johannesburg City Chair in Economic Development at Wits.
Professor Barry Dwolatzky honoured by his peers for his outstanding contributions to ICT sector.
Andrew Forbes elected as Fellow Member of a leading international optics and photonics association.
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Winners of GeoJozi Challenge will help solve Jozi’s street address problems and improve service delivery.
In a paradigm shift from conventional electronic devices, exploiting the quantum properties of superlattices holds the promise of developing new technologies.
At the very beginning of the 1960s, a South African palaeontologist embarked on a series of ambitious works.
Wits is transforming Braamfontein into a young, vibrant precinct for its notable tech-savvy and innovative community.
New #IBMResearchWITS partnership to focus on big data, cloud computing and mobile tech.
Wits signs a MOU with Academic Partnerships to increase access to education through online learning.
DST awards University a project to develop teaching and training platform for postgraduates.
Partnering with Wits University, the City of Joburg launches a developer challenge to address issues.
African researchers demonstrate a 100x increase in the amount of information that can be 'packed into light'.
How "free" is the internet in South Africa and the question of cost.
The DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences is leading the charge.
Now Dr Lesley Chown can test new metals cost-effectively in her lab.
Wits researchers in optical communications explore ways to drastically increase the optical fibre bandwidth.
Hepatitis B Virus causes between 600 000 and one million deaths per year, predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
Researchers say there are still large gaps in our understanding of the associated utility systems in batch chemical processes.
The School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering is about to make headlines for the development of new technology to cool high-speed computers.
Nosipho Moloto hopes to use nanotechnology to solve our energy crisis.
Andrew Forbes is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Physics.
