The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria Unveils Ground-breaking Immersive Technology Lab

Posted on April 16, 2024

Pretoria, South Africa - Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology is proud to announce the launch of its new Immersive Technology Lab at the Department of Information Science. This cutting-edge facility marks a significant milestone in the university's journey towards...

NLP enables speakers of African languages to make better sense of our world

Posted on August 01, 2022

Prof Vukosi Marivate, Absa Chair of Data Science in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, was the guest speaker at the 30th UP Expert Lecture, hosted by Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Tawana Kupe, on 27 July 2022. The title of...

Championing the rights of under-represented groups in computational intelligence

Posted on June 22, 2022

Prof Nelishia Pillay has been appointed to chair the Women in Computational Intelligence (WCI) subcommittee of the global Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).

Data science research at UP gets international recognition as academic receives Google AI Research Scholar Award for 2022

Posted on June 10, 2022

Congratulations to Dr Marivate for being awarded the GoogleAI Research Scholar for 2022 for his work on the investigation into the consolidation of learnings of language models and language tools for South African languages and beyond.

UP student entrepreneur’s gaming chain brings 4IR to young people in townships

Posted on March 31, 2022

“I want to get the message out that success doesn’t need a visa; no matter where you come from, you can believe in yourself and make a unique difference.” – Second-year UP student Tshepiso Malema.

New appointments in the School of InformationTechnology

Posted on January 10, 2022

Professor Ina Fourie, Head of Department Information Science, has been appointed as the new Chair for The School of Information Technology

The School of Information Technology becomes a member of iSchools

Posted on September 20, 2021

In September 2021 the University of Pretoria’s School of Information Technology (SIT), including the departments of Computer Science, Informatics and Information Science, was accepted as a member of the prestigious iSchools Organization.

Dr Smuts nominated as deputy-chair of the Knowledge Management South Africa (KMSA) Board.

Posted on September 14, 2021

Dr Hanlie Smuts, an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics, EBIT faculty at the University of Pretoria, has been appointed as deputy-chair of the Knowledge Management South Africa (KMSA) Board. The objective of KMSA is to look after the interests of knowledge management (KM)...