Index: 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
September/October 2011: RUCUS runs coding competition with sponsorship from Entelect. Read more...
June 2011: Philip Machanick joins the Department of Computer Science. The Department is delighted to welcome Philip as the newest member of our team. Read more...
June 2011: Neil Blakey-Milner is recognised as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans for 2011. Read more...
7 April 2011: Graduation 2011. The Department celebrated the achievements of its top students and graduates, including Dr. Barry Irwin. Read more...
28 January 2011: New Information Security MSc Begins. Read more...
January 2011: Yusuf Motara joins the Department of Computer Science. The Department is delighted to welcome Yusuf back as the newest member of our team. Read more...
12 October 2010: Pat Terry receives SAICSIT "Pioneer" award. Read more...
September 2010: James Connan joins the Department of Computer Science. The Department is delighted to welcome James as the newest member of our team. Read more...
July 2010: Hannah and Mamello Thinyane win in the mobile telecom applications category in the SIMagine contest. Read more...
July 2010: Article on the Convergence Group features in Brainstorm magazine. Read more...
June 2010: Haroon Meer Recognised as one of 200 influential Young South Africans. Read more...
June 2010: Sinini Ncube is awarded a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Read more...
13 May 2010: Barry Irwin presented an overview of the state of network security in Africa at the ITWeb Security Summit held in Johannesburg. Read more...
10 April 2010: Graduation 2010. The Department celebrated the achievements of its graduates, recognising, in particular, the outstanding performance of several top students. Read more...
24 March 2010: Innovation Attic Opens. Read more...
March 2010: Jessica Smith is selected to represent South Africa at the Proctor & Gamble International IDS Challenge. Read more...
2 November 2009: CS Postgrads take second place in regional Innovation Fund competition. Read more...
September 2009: Finnish funding for Software Factory at Rhodes. Read more...
September 2009: Computer Science postgrads receive awards at SATNAC. Read more...
19 February 2009: Dr Hannah Thinyane and Mamello Thinyane received the top award for the SIMagine competition in Barcelona. Read more...
1 April 2008: Celebration of fifty years of service: Peter Clayton and John Ebden receive long-service awards. Read more...
28 March 2008: Once again, Graduation 2008 highlighted the outstanding achievements of our students. Read more...
14 February 2008: Peter Clayton appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Development). Read more...
12 February 2008: The CS entry in the SIMagine competition wins the TIM Operator's Prize. Read more...
5 February 2008: Business executives from around the country and abroad met at Rhodes University this week to celebrate the expansion of Rhodes University's Telkom Centre of Excellence. Read more...
24 January 2008: A team from the Computer Science Department is through to the finals of the SIMagine 2008 competition. Read more...
1 January 2008: Hannah Slay joins the Department of Computer Science. The Department is delighted to welcome Hannah as a lecturer. Hannah has a PhD from the Univesity of South Australia, and has been at Rhodes for the past two and a half years as a postdoctoral researcher. Read more...
30 November 2007: The Department received a grant of R1.5m to support a collaborative project with the University of Namibia to develop their postgraduate research programme. Read more...
29–31 October 2007: Rhodes University hosted the very successful, international AfriGraph 2007 conference. Read more...
4 October 2007: The Best Paper Award at the SAICSIT 2007 conference was presented to Kevin Glass and Shaun Bangay. Read more...
July 2007: The "Outstanding Paper Award" at the IHCI'07 conference in Portugal was presented to Hannah Slay, Ingrid Sieborger and Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams (Education Department). Read more...
May 2007: Richard Foss was appointed to lead an international standards committee. Read more...
3 May 2007: The team from Rhodes was placed third in the 2007 Standard Bank IT Challenge. Read more...
12 April 2007: Graduation 2007 was a great celebration of the achievements of our graduates. Read more...
19 March 2007: The CS and IS Departments organised a national colloquium on the ICT skills shortage in SA. Read more...
2 March 2007: The CS and IS Departments hosted a Shavathon and raised R1612 for CANSA. Read more...
13 February 2007: The CS entry in the SIMagine competition wins the MTN Operators Prize. Read more...
January 2007: A team from the Computer Science Department is through to the finals of the SIMagine 2007 competition. Read more...
October 2006: Two teams from the Computer Science Department are through to the next round of the SIMagine 2007 competition. Read more...
May 2006: Karen Bradshaw joins the Department of Computer Science. The Department is delighted to welcome back Karen as a lecturer. She has an MSc from Rhodes and a PhD from Cambridge. Read more...
8 April 2006: At Graduation 2006 several students received awards for their outstanding performance in 2005. Two staff members also received awards for their contributions to the Department's research programme. Read more...
30 March 2006: The team from Rhodes came third overall in the 2006 Standard Bank IT Challenge. Read more...
18 March 2006: Four teams from Rhodes took part in the local heats of the 2006 Standard Bank IT Challenge. Our top team, which will compete in the national competition at the end of the month, consisted of Greg Atkinson, Nick Pilkington, David de Bruyn and Rodain Joubert. Read more...
13 November 2005 — PA Plod 2005: A staff/student team from the CS and IS departments came second in the PA Plod. Read more...
5 November 2005 — CANSA Shavathon 2005: Several staff and students in the CS and IS departments took part in the annual CANSA Shavathon. Read more (and see the evidence!)...
22 October 2005 — CSSA ICT Student of the Year Award: Ingrid Brandt, a Computer Science Masters student received the CSSA Eastern Cape ICT Student of the Year Award. Read more...
15 October 2005: Ten teams from Rhodes took part in the Seventh ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The highly-experienced top local team (Nick Pilkington, David de Bruyn, and Stephen Robertson) came third nationally. Read more...
10 September 2005: The Dispatch published an article on research in the Department into the modelling of African hairstyles for Computer Graphics. The work was done by Debbie Patrick for her MSc, supervised by Shaun Bangay. Link to the Dispatch article.
8 September 2005: BingBee makes headlines. Peter Wentworth's revolutionary BingBee device featured in today's Dispatch newspaper. Link to the Dispatch article.
July 2005: The Department welcomed its first postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Hannah Slay. Read more...
15 April 2005: Danny Zhao, a PhD student in the Department, received a prestigious Peoples' Republic of China International Scholarship. Read more...
7 April 2005: A relatively junior team from Rhodes took part in the inaugural Standard Bank IT Challenge, placing second among five university teams. Our team consisted of Stephen Robertson (Honours), Mike Horne (Honours), Nick Pilkington (CS2) and Sharon Styger (CS1). Read more...
1 April 2005: In what was most definitely not an April Fools' Day event, several students received awards for their outstanding performance in 2004 at the Department's Graduation cocktail part2003y! Read more...
29 October 2004: The Telkom Centre of Excellence in the Department of Computer Science was the focus of a feature article in the Mail & Guardian newspaper. Read the article.
28 October 2004: Two CS Postgraduate project commercialization proposals were announced as the first and second prize winners in the regional round of the Innovation Fund competition. Read more...
9 October 2004: Four teams from Rhodes took part in the sixth ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The best local team (Nkululeko Gojela, Stephen Robertson and Nick Pilkington — see below) came fifth nationally. A local team of chemistry postgrads came seventh! Read more...
September 2004: Nick Pilkington, a first-year BSc (Software Development) student, was a member of the successful South African team that took part in the International Olympiad in Informatics in Athens. The team of four South African students was among the 296 participants from 79 countries taking part in the sixteenth International Olympiad in Informatics in Athens, Greece. Richard Starfield of Wits University was the gold medal winner. Read more....
6 September 2004: At the industry dinner held in conjunction with SATNAC 2004, an award for the top student in the CoE programme nationally was made for the first time. This inaugural award went to Jason Penton, a Rhodes Computer Science PhD student. Visit the SATNAC website for more information on the conference.
July 2004: During the Rhodes University Centenary celebrations, several events were held in the Department. In particular, Pat Terry gave a humourous and nostalgic talk! Prof Terry's talk.
April 2004: At Graduation 2004, awards were made to students for their outstanding performance during 2003 and to two staff members for their outstanding contributions to the department. A new award was introduced for the best research student. Read on ...
Graduation 2004 also saw some rather unusual events with a number of staff members with sons or daughters graduating, and one father and son graduating together. Read on ...
14 November 2003: The CSc202 OOP Project prizes were presented. Read more...
25 October 2003: The winners of the CSc102 programming competition were announced. Read more...
June 2003: Barry Irwin joins the Department of Computer Science. Barry is a Masters graduate of the Department who has been appointed as a lecturer, after two years of working in the IT industry, based in Cape Town. His main interests are in networking and security.
30 May 2003: Peter Clayton wins prestigious NSTF Award. Read more...
April 2003: At Graduation 2003, three staff members received Head of Department's Staff Merit Awards in recognition of their contributions to the work of the department, and top students received awards for their outstanding performance during 2002. Read on ...
The new Computer Science web pages were launched on 25th April 2003