The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presented a talk ‘Understanding Artificial Intelligence’ By Dr Hans Georg Zimmermann Abstract: Why is Artificial Intelligence attracting just now such an attention in science and general public – even though the subject has a long tradition back to 1955. The answer to this question has to do with an interplay of
As part of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Regional workshop in Africa for the project “A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?” which took place on 1 to 2 December 2017 at AIMS South Africa, a special women mentoring session for
On 18 November 2017, AIMSWIS South Africa held a mentoring event, which was a follow-up to the “Meet and Greet” event held on 9 October. The event was organized by Dr Rejoyce Gavhi-Molefe, Ms Mirette Fawzy, Ms Julia Borchardt, Ms Zoe Hamel, Ms Assumpta Nnakenyi, Ms Innocenter Amima and Ms Bathata Masego for the current
AIMS South Africa in association with the Muizenberg Festival and the Zandvlei Trust, hosted two public talks on 3 and 5 October 2017: Mr Tony Budden (Hemporium) gave a talk titled: ‘The eco benefits of industrial hemp as an agricultural crop.’ (pictured above) Prof. Mike Bruton author scientist and one of the lead-ing fish biologists
As part of our National Science activities, AIMS South Africa presented a talk titled: ‘Tech is the future’ Ms Nozuko Poni, Marketing & Project Coordinator, Silicon Cape. Bio: Nozuko Poni is the Marketing & Project Coordinator at Silicon Cape. Before her role at Silicon Cape, she was coordinated a digital marketing project powered by Google to
By Griffin Foster, University of Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley
By Howard Isaacson, Research Scientist, University of California, Berkeley, & Breakthrough Listen
The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presented a talk titled ‘Excursions into Signal Processing Research and its Applications’ By Dr Arlene Cole-Rhodes, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Morgan State University, Maryland, USA Bio and abstract: Since January, Prof Cole-Rhodes has been spending a one-semester period of sabbatical leave at the Carnegie Mellon University –
The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presented a talk ‘Scientific certainty and public health action: Where does the balance lie?’ By Prof. Brian Williams, Research Associate, South African Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) Abstract: We have the misfortune to have lived through one of the most devastating epidemics in all of human history
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