In 2018, UCT launched the new School of Information Technology in response to the growing needs of the South African and global tech industry, and the increasing demand for university qualifications in the sector.
The 4th revolution is on the horizon and developments such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analysis and Cloud Computing are resulting in technologies becoming part of our daily lives. The Internet is around us all the time with the watches we wear, the phones we use and the way we communicate.
The School of Information Technology at UCT leverages the excellent research and teaching of the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Systems to create a new pool of talent, transforming the IT sector and responding to the national agenda for ICT.
News
Monday, 18 November 2019
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is not coming, it is already here, and the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) new School of Information Technology (IT) is already well positioned to prepare students, says its director Professor Ulrike Rivett.
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Wed, 23 Oct 2019 - 08:30
A second-year Informatics student was named as one of the three top winners in the Western Cape Government’s Homewise Youth Competition.
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Tue, 22 Oct 2019 - 16:45
Every year, the Dept of Information Systems runs a competition as part of the final-year INF3012S course, and this year the winning team donated the prize money of R10 000 to the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children.
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Thu, 17 Oct 2019 - 15:00
The demand for data scientists has never been greater, but how does one become a “data scientist” and what is this new career all about?
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Tue, 10 Sep 2019 - 20:30