Applications have closed for all Bachelor and Honours degrees, and postgraduate degrees with coursework. We do not accept late applications. Applications for 2022 will start in May of 2021.

Bursary opportunity The MultiChoice 2021 Bursary Scheme is now open and we are looking for driven, accountable and lateral thinkers currently studying towards select degrees. Find out more: sit.uct.ac.za/sit/bursaries#…

Don't miss this publication. Some of the chapters were authored by School of IT staff.

Don't missed the first virtual School of IT seminar of the year on Thursday this week - Algorithms and the End of Politics: What Might the Future Bring? teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

We will have our next virtual School of IT seminar of the year on Thursday 20 May 2021, 13:00-14:00. All are welcome. Speaker: Thijs Roumen (HPI Potsdam) Title: Portable laser cutting

The ICA has chosen Asso Prof Deshen Moodley as a fellow for the 4th edition of ICA, a global network of future research leaders in which some of the very best young academics work together on paradigm-shifting, cross-disciplinary research. sit.uct.ac.za/sit/news/2021/…

Congratulations to the winners of the UCT student entrepreneurship internal rounds! I look forward to seeing you pitch at the provincial competition! Welldone! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Applications for Postgraduate Studies in Information Systems for 2022 Fine out more sit.uct.ac.za/sit/2021/is-pg

A new cohort of PhD students have joined the 2021 programme of the Hasso-Plattner Institute Research School at UCT. sit.uct.ac.za/sit/news/2021/…

After joining the Hasso-Plattner Institute Research School at UCT in 2015, which he discovered through a Google search, Richard Maliwatu is set to graduate with a PhD this July. sit.uct.ac.za/sit/news/2021/…

On behalf of the Fairwork project at the University of Oxford and UCT, the School of IT would like to invite you to the live launch of the third round of Fairwork ratings for South Africa. sit.uct.ac.za/sit/news/2021/…

Analyze Consulting is offering a one-year bursary followed by a one-year internship, to a learner in support of the requirements of the B-BBEE Act. This bursary is for study towards an Honours equivalent degree majoring in Information Systems. sit.uct.ac.za/sit/bursaries#…

Uber vs MrD vs Bolt vs SweepSouth – the best and worst gig jobs in South Africa businesstech.co.za/news/technolog…

Fairwork, a collaborative project involving the University of Cape Town (UCT), released its third report on work in the gig economy in South Africa on 8 July 2021. sit.uct.ac.za/sit/news/2021/…

UCT’s new Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, to be offered from 2022, looks at the relevance and future impact of AI, and what we should be doing about it. sit.uct.ac.za/sit/news/2021/…

Associate Professor Maria Keet of the Dept of Computer Science has won the UCT's Open Textbook Award for her “exemplary resource”, An Introduction to Ontology Engineering. It's her first open textbook, and a world-first textbook for computer scientists. sit.uct.ac.za/sacm/news/2021…

A Human-Computer Interaction researcher at UCT says an increasing need for information for new parents has seen them resort to digital technologies in accessing parenting information and support. sit.uct.ac.za/sit/news/2021/…

The annual University of Cape Town School of IT Showcase will take place virtually on Wednesday, 3rd November 2021. The event will take place between 16h00 and 18h00 (UTC+2) at showcase.sit.uct.ac.za

IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge - 1st Place, Community Enablement Proof-of-Concept: David Johnson and Melissa Densmore of Cape Town, South Africa, with iNethi, an open-source content sharing and services platform for community wireless networks. businesswire.com/news/home/2021…

An article by Assoc Prof Maria Keet about how ontologies may help determining when a pandemic will be over, published in The Conversation recently: theconversation.com/a-computer-sci…. It also featured on SAfm Sunrise with a brief interview on Thursday 24 March: omny.fm/shows/safm-sun…