A team of six University of Zululand (UNIZULU) students who participated in the recent Data-Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA) Student Datathon Challenge took second and third positions in the technical and research poster segments of the competition, bagging… Read More
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he young generation, commonly referred to as the future of the world, is arguably the best group from which to seek solutions to some of the world’s critical issues. This is the notion that the BRICS Future Skills Group, one… Read More
At this year’s #SATNAC2023 conference, Wandile T Mnyandu, a promising first-year MSc candidate from the University of Zululand, presented his work-in-progress poster. đź“Š Poster Title: Software Defined Networks for South African Public Schools ICT Infrastructure. This research holds the potential to revolutionize ICT infrastructure… Read More
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Students from the University of Zululand’s (UNIZULU) Computer Science Department are in celebratory mode after being placed third in the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA) Student Datathon Challenge.
The DIRISA student datathon is a competition that aims to showcase how open research data can be used to develop creative and innovative solutions to some of South Africa’s problems.
Sinaye Sotatshe, a third-year Computer
Science student from the University of
Zululand (UNIZULU), has been placed
in the top 10 of the international Cloud
DevJam Hackathon.
Organised by Zaio in Cape Town, the
coding gameshow aimed to find the best
Mern stack (JavaScript/React) developer
team in the world. Upon successfully
qualifying to participate in the hackathon,
Sotatshe was paired with Durban-
based software developer Ronica
Singh for the challenge.
