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ACADEMIC STAFF

Professor George Wells
Head of Department
Research Interests : Distributed and Parallel Processing, Real-Time Systems, Data Communications, Multimedia Applications, Java.
EMail: G.Wells@ru.ac.za


Professor Peter Wentworth
CS1 Course Coordinator
Research Interests : Agile software development, small-team systems, automated testing, web services, functional languages, telecommunication technologies and strategies, edutainment and computer-assisted skills acquisition.
EMail: P.Wentworth@ru.ac.za


Professor Alfredo Terzoli
Head of the Centre of Excellence and Senior Postgrad Coordinator
Research Interests : Realtime multimedia over packet networks, ICT for development.
EMail: A.Terzoli@ru.ac.za


Professor Patrick Terry
Emeritus Professor
Research Interests: Design of programming languages, standardisation and implementation.
EMail: P.Terry@ru.ac.za


Professor Richard Foss
Research Interests Networking of audio and video devices for live concerts, sound installations and recording studios.
EMail: R.Foss@ru.ac.za


Professor Philip Machanick
Research Interests: Computer systems, bioinformatics
EMail: P.Machanick@ru.ac.za


Dr Barry Irwin
CSc1L & Honours Course Coordinator
Research Interests
: Firewall and network security technologies, network traffic management, applications of cryptography, information security training and awareness.
EMail: B.Irwin@ru.ac.za


Dr Karen Bradshaw
CS 2 Course Co-ordinator
Research Interests : Distributed and parallel processing, programming languages, compilers.
EMail: K.Bradshaw@ru.ac.za


Madeleine Wright Madeleine Wright
Research Interests : Java, XML, web services and mobile development.
EMail: M.Wright@ru.ac.za


Hannah Slay Dr Hannah Thinyane
CS3 Course Co-ordinator
Research Interests : Human computer interaction, ICT for development, augmented reality.
EMail: H.Thinyane@ru.ac.za


Mici Halse Mici Halse
Research Interests: E-Learning, ICTs in education.
EMail: M.Halse@ru.ac.za


James Connan James Connan
CSc303 Course Co-ordinator
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Ubiquitous Computing, Integration of Signed and Verbal Communication with particularly application to South African Sign Language
EMail: J.Connan@ru.ac.za


Yusuf Motara Yusuf Motara
Research Interests: Language design, information security, software development methodology, programming paradigms, and whatever interesting things his Twitter feed has thrown up this week.
EMail: Y.Motara@ru.ac.za




RESEARCH STAFF

Ingrid Sieborger Ingrid Siebörger
CoE Coordinator
CoE coordinator : ICTs in Education, computer networking and ICTs for rural development.
EMail: I.Sieborger@ru.ac.za


Mosiuoa Tsietsi Mosiuoa Tsietsi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
Email: M.Tsietsi@ru.ac.za


ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Caro Watkins
Department Manager
EMail: C.Watkins@ru.ac.za


Michelle Coupé
Administrative Queries
Departmental Queries (IS)

EMail: M.Coupe@ru.ac.za


Heidi Myburgh
Departmental Queries (CS)
EMail: H.Myburgh@ru.ac.za


Busi Mzangwa
Receptionist/Secretary
EMail: B.Mzangwa@ru.ac.za




TECHNICAL STAFF

Billy Morgan
Manager: ICT
Research Interests: ICTe in the Automotive Industry
EMail: B.Morgan@ru.ac.za


Chris Morley
Senior ICT Specialist
Research Interests: Wireless and broadband
EMail: C.Morley@ru.ac.za


Karl Van der Schyff
Senior ICT Specialist
Research Interests: Deployment of large scale computing infrastructure, Backup methodologies
EMail: K.vanderschyff@ru.ac.za


Jill Japp
ICT Specialist
Research Interests: Computer Forensics and security
EMail: J.Japp@ru.ac.za


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