Innovate Issue 3, 2009

 
 

A Letter From The Editor

Design in the 21st Century - Leon Liebenberg

Innovation News

Read about the Time line for Innovation, An atom thick transistor, New turbine coating, The world's top patent holder, New Buildings, Energy alternatives, How to produce and distribute energy efficiently and How to save and use energy more efficiently  click here
                        
Features

Innovation in Ethics follows innovation in technology - Stefan Gruner (220KB)

Essays 

• Universities and industry - driving knowledge transfer - Anthea van Zyl (275KB)
• How does South African academia rate internationally? - Anastassios Pouris (117KB)
• Innovative tools for a competitive advantage in publishing - Rudi MR Venter and Francis Galloway (134KB)
• Don't forget about the power of paper - Elaine Byrne (92KB)
• Interdisciplinary research for value creation - Marne de Vries (334KB)
• How to grow the South African biotechnology sector - Donrich W Jordaan (86KB)
• Transporting South Africa's movers into the future - Dorothy R Diedericks and Johan W Joubert (83KB)
• Making the construction industry accountable - FElix le Roux (98KB)
• Role Model for young researchers - Markus Roggebach visited UP's IT Department (98KB)
• German academic's sojourn in Pretoria - Kurt Geihs (66KB)
• IP systems meet indigenous knowledge and genetic resources - Janusz Luterek (124KB)
• Listen - let's get the message accross - Retha Claasen-Veldsman and Maritha Snyman (144)
• It's all downhill: ignoring the bumps in the road using gradient-only optimisation - Janine Smit (49KB)
• Brace yourself - Carl Sandrock (131KB)
• "Little old South Africa" on top of the world - Advertorial PBMR
• Industrial system dynamics - Kris Adendorff (404KB)
• Line pipe steel-treading the tight rope - Waldo Stumpf (196KB)
• Taking active control of vibration - Nico Theron (159)
• Impedance tomography as an alternative to radioation imaging techniques - Tania and Johan Hanekom (202KB)
• Basic research in surface electromyograpgy (146KB)
• Why are capital projects often late and over spent? Putting the puzzle together - Herman Steyn (418KB) 
• Alternative materials used for basic sanitation structures (97KB)
• Adjudication of disputes in the construction industry - Marthinus J Maritz (82KB)
• Flight at small scales - Geoffrey Spedding (236KB)
• Paint by numbers - Tom von Moltke, Roelf Sandenbergh and Pheladi Mohlala (310KB)

Student Projects

• Easy does it
• Happy Hands conducting your computer: Best undergraduate Project in Computer Science: 2007
• The 'smart revolution' begins - Maciej Rossudowski and Hein S Venter
• Projecting successful engineering

Achievements

• University of Pretoria at the forefront at Windhoek conference
• Leading Minds
• Accolade for informatics pioneer
• A marriage of brilliant minds
• Top Graduate

Book Review

• Current trends in informatics: an international book review - Stefan Gruner
• Book review: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson - Josie Glausiusz
• New book by Judith Bishop: C# 3.0 Design Patterns - Stefan Gruner

News

• A focus on EEC engineering at the University of Pretoria
• Wireless sensor networks demystified
• University of Pretoria research group wins THRIP award
• Three international book publications for School of IT
• School of Information Technology launches experimental lecture room
• University of Pretoria makes global IT contribution
• Research focus areas in the School of Information Technology
• News snippets

Technology

• Graphing calculators
• Small bytes

Last Word

• Possibility thinking for business strategists: lessons from breakthrough engineering - Robert Friedel and Jeanne Liedtka
• Technology that influences my work environment - Madeleine du Toit, Geoffrey Spedding, Stephan Heyns, Hein Venter