Overview

The Centre for Teletraffic Engineering for the Information Society was inaugurated in collaboration with the University of the North as part of the Telkom Centre of Excellence programme on 28 August 1997. Prof Christoff Pauw was the first Director. The University of the North formed their own CoE in June 2004 (Automatic Speech recognition) and the partnership was ended. The full name of CeTEIS was changed to Centre for Telecommunication Engineering for the Information Society in 2009.

Directors:

• Aug ’97 – Mar ’98  Prof Christoff Pauw (resigned)

• Mar ’98 – May ’99  Prof Hannes van Schalkwyk (retired)

• May ‘99 – Nov ’06  Prof Walter Penzhorn (emigrated to Germany)

• Nov ‘06 – Jun ’08  Prof Corne Olivier (emigrated to Australia)

• Jun ’08 – Nov ’09  Dr Pieter de Villiers (resigned, to CSIR)

• Nov ‘09 - present  Jacques van Wyk

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