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The talking head
The Department of Computing Sciences is a vibrant
department, and we work hard to provide our students
with an excellent qualification while they are with us.
I would like to highlight the following.
We offer 7 BSc and BCom undergraduate computing
degrees. After obtaining an undergraduate qualification,
our students can continue with their Honours, Masters
and PhD studies in the department.
With 12 of our lecturers who have a PhD qualification, we
are one of the best qualified computing departments in
the country.
Our students have daily access to 6 undergraduate and 5
postgraduate laboratories, containing nearly 400 PC’s.
Some of our research equipment include a usability lab,
an eye tracker, a 42 inch multi-touch screen as well as
various robots and mobile devices.
We strive to provide a holistic experience to our students
through activities such as guest lectures by our industry
partners, programming competitions, industry visits and
extra-curricular workshops.
You are always welcome to pay us a visit.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Prof Jean Greyling
Head of Department
For further information: Phone: +27 (0)41 504 2247 Fax: +27 (0)41 504 2831 Email: [email protected] www. cs.nmmu.ac.za Facebook: “NMMU Computing Sciences”
Computing Sciences
Prof Andi le Ngcaba for NMMU
We are honoured to announce Prof Andile Ngcaba as our department's first ever
Adjunct Professor. Prof Ngcaba serves as executive chairman of Dimension Data
Middle East and Africa and Convergence Partners Investments. He was born in
Duncan Village, East London and has always been very active in the Eastern Cape
ICT environment.
Global Outstanding Service Aw ard
Prof Janet Wesson was officially awarded the IFIP TC13 Outstanding Service Award by the chairman of TC13, Jan Gulliksen, at their business meeting held in Tampere, Finland. Prof Wesson has been the South African representative for the past 15 years. TC13 focuses on Human Computer Interaction.
Undergraduate receives Mabinya
Scholarship
Undergraduate Nqobizwe Ngubane received the Mabinya Scholarship,
privately sponsored by Alumnus Baxolile Mabinya and his wife Elize.
Baxolile completed his Masters in 2007 and is currently Group Strategy
Executive for
Dimension Data
Middle East and
Africa.
Honours student Salomon Koen experimenting with our latest pur-chase, a quadro-copter. His project is about tracking its location using the on board camera information.
Class of 2014— biggest ever! Congratulations to our 79 students graduating this year - the biggest group of graduates from our department ever. Simone Beets, Patrick Tchankue and Tony Simpson will be awarded their doctorates on Friday 17 April.
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Raspberry Pi students WIN BIG
Four of our students won R7500 each for creating a one of a kind electronic system by using a Raspberry Pi. This competition
and total prize money worth R50 000, was personally sponsored by Prof Andile Ngcaba, Chairman for Dimension Data Middle
East and Africa. Their Power Monitor project aims to provide users with the ability to keep track of their electricity usage.
Student team in Afr ica Top 10 ACM ICPC Programming Competi t ion
Team “The Finite State Automata” was placed 10th in sub-
Saharan Africa and 1st in the Eastern Cape. 87 teams from
various countries participated in the competition. The team
consisted of Simon Urban, Michael Hatherley and Michael
McQuirk.
2015 undergraduate
achievers ’ tour to Cape Town
Prof Jean Greyling accompanied Justin Kelly, Jacques
Potgieter and Salomon Koen on a sponsored tour to Cape
Town.
At the different companies they attended a project meeting,
listened to various presentations on different computing
careers and had informal discussions with many Alumni.
Thank you to Korbitec, Open Box and ACI for sponsoring the
tour. These companies annually employ many of our
students.
Top achievers in f i rst year
programming c lass this year !
From left: Nathan Watt (1st IT, Victoria Park), James Roberts (1st IT, Queen's), Ruan Olivier (1st Grade 12, Despatch), James Westraadt (2nd IT & 2nd Grade 12, Alexander Road), Antin Phillips (1st IT, Grey & 1st Eastern Cape, Computer Olympiad), Carl Meyer (1st IT, Outeniqua) and Kevin May (1st IT, Stirling).
Global award for
PhD student
Kayode Ayankoya won a global
blogging competition sponsored by
SAP. His topic was the role of Big
Data in mining, and he received an all
expenses paid trip to Germany to
attend a SAP conference.
Minister opens new laboratory The Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Naledi Pandor, opened our Broadband Communication and Computational Intelligence Laboratory on Thursday 26 March. Masters student Grant Woodford had time to show her his “Snake Robot”.