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.
