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Mining robots of the future

Deon Sabatta is building a mobile ‘pack mule’ robot that will follow a human target and navigate its way ‘home’.

A leaf out of Google’s book

Stellenbosch is developing a start-up culture at the university in a bid to encourage innovation.

Internet freedom fighters

This year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates its 20th year of creating legal precedent in cases involving internet users and the governments and companies that try to silence them.

Trends

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A couple of geeks

Mosiuoa Tsietsi is working on next generation network services that enable the deployment of Skype-like services on a telecoms network.

Tech Transfer

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The new face(s) of computing

If Microsoft is going to be relevant to the next generation of computer users, who better to pay attention to than the leading expert on how the next generation is using social networks?

Tech Transfer

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Cloud over Wits

African free software stalwart Prof Derek Keats is propelling Wits University into the cloud as an efficient way of managing resources at the institution.

Tech Transfer

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Rocking the world to its core

A Stellenbosch-based firm is set to reap the rewards of a growing market for superconductive circuit technology with its world-first design tool.

Tech Transfer

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Rethinking personal health records

Who would have thought that the cardboard file that your doctor uses to identify you could become the source of a multimillion-dollar initiative to improve personal health records?

Tech Transfer

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The agile revolution

The move from a ‘waterfall’ to ‘agile’ software development methodology at Salesforce.com is credited with the company’s ability to quickly adapt to the needs of its more than 67 000 customers.

Tech Transfer

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Towards a ‘you-centric’ web

Aza Raskin, head of User Experience at Mozilla Labs, thinks that ‘the browser really is the next big thing’.

Tech Transfer

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I see you

New technology being developed at Stellenbosch could improve airport security significantly.

Tech Transfer

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Turning to nature for the robot revolution

Nature and robots could almost be viewed as the antithesis of one another. A lab in Berkeley is proving the opposite.

Tech Transfer

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Mapping the world class African city

The City of Johannesburg is closing off its GIS data in a ‘cost recovery’ move that other South African municipalities are set to follow. This, say some industry players, is not in keeping with Joburg’s plans to become ‘a world-class African city’.

Technology

Heather Ford