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secure data storage on the web. Application scenarios
include service oriented architectures; secure databases,
mobile and/or fragmented data. We aim to evolve these
schemes in unconventional ways to enable adaptability to
changes in the state of the data or the system.
2011 highlights include:
The South African Square Kilometre Array Project:
The MeerKAT High Performance Computing (HPC) for
Radio Astronomy Research Programme awarded a local
Computer Science-Astronomy collaboration [comprising
Dr Sarah Blyth (UCT Astronomy), James Gain, Michelle
Kuttel, Patrick Marais (principal investigator), Kurt van
der Heyden (UCT Astronomy) and Catherine Cress
(UWC Astronomy)] R3,200,000 for the period 2011-
2014 for a project on Developing Efficient Software for
Large-Scale Radio Interferometry. There are currently 3
MSc students and 1 PhD student in Computer Science
working on the project.
Staff and students
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
3
Associate Professors
1
Honorary Professors
1
Associate Professors
4
Senior lecturers
5
Lecturers
1
Technical Support Staff
2
Administrative and Clerical Staff
4
Total
20
Students
Doctoral
18
Master’s
66
Honours
36
Undergraduate
670
Total
790
Research fields and staff
Associate Professor Sonia Berman
Head of Department; Databases; conceptual modeling;
persistent programming languages; object-oriented
databases.
Professor Kenneth MacGregor
Client server; object technology.
Professor Edwin Blake
Human-computer interaction; information technology
and socio-economic development; collaborative virtual
environments; information and communication technology
policies.
Professor Gary Marsden
Human computer interaction; ICT4D and mobile computing
applications.
Dr Antoine Bagula
Senior Lecturer; network traffic engineering; wireless
networking; network security.
Dr James Gain
Senior Lecturer; computer graphics; geometric modelling;
visualization.
Dr Patrick Marais
Senior Lecturer; image processing; computer graphics;
GPGPU computing.
Assoc. Prof. Michelle Kuttel
Computational science; parallel and high performance
computing, molecular modelling, scientific visualization.
Dr. Anne V.D.M. Kayem
Senior Lecturer: information security; applied cryptography;
unconventional security approaches.
Dr Hanh Le
Senior Lecturer; overlay networks; sensor networks.
Dr Audrey Mbogho
Senior Lecturer; visual and speech inputs; genetic
algorithms; software engineering.
Associate Professor Hussein Suleman
Digital libraries; information retrieval; Internet technology;
high performance computing.
Mr Gary Stewart
Lecturer (ADP); human computer interaction.
Contact details
Postal address: Department of Computer Science,
University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch,
7701
Telephone: +27 21 650 2663
Fax: +27 21 650 3551
Web: http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/
UCT General enquiries: +27 21 650 9111
UCT web: http://www.uct.ac.za/
Email:dept@cs.uct.ac.za