[IRTalk] Public lecture on Computer Science and Digital Archiving tools

[Hussein Suleman]

Hi

For anyone who is interested - I am giving a public virtual lecture on 
Computer Science and Digital Archiving tools on Wednesday afternoon.

Details and how to register are below.  All are welcome!

Regards,
    Hussein Suleman

-- 
Hussein Suleman, PhD
Head of Department and Professor
Department of Computer Science, School of IT, University of Cape Town
www.husseinsspace.com


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Subject: 	VC Desk: Inaugural Lecture: Professor Hussein Suleman
Resent-From: 	HUSSEIN.SULEMAN at UCT.AC.ZA
Date: 	Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:05:01 +0000
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  From the VC's Desk Professor Hussein Suleman’s inaugural lecture will 
be on the topic “Computer Science at times of crisis: reflecting on 
societal drivers for software and algorithm design”.


     Inaugural Lecture: Professor Hussein Suleman

21 September 2020

Dear colleagues and students

The Vice-Chancellor’s Inaugural Lecture series, a central part of the 
university’s academic life, is among some of the events we have had to 
reimagine as we navigate a new environment. These lectures are held to 
commemorate inaugural lecturers’ appointment to full professorship. They 
serve as a platform for the academic delivering the lecture to share 
their body of research with members of the wider university community 
and the general public in an accessible way.

I am pleased to invite you to the next Vice-Chancellor’s Inaugural 
Lecture, which will be presented online by Professor Hussein Suleman. 
The lecture, titled “Computer Science at times of crisis: reflecting on 
societal drivers for software and algorithm design”, is both relevant 
and timely.

Suleman is head of department and professor in Computer Science in the 
School of Information Technology 
<http://icts.evlink9.net/servlet/link/61600/587613/1475906/2084003>. His 
research is situated within the Digital Libraries Laboratory and the 
Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).

The lecture will present some key problems and recent research in the 
context of computer science in general, and digital archiving tools in 
particular. Professor Suleman’s main research interests are in digital 
libraries, ICT4D, African language information retrieval, cultural 
heritage preservation, internet technology and educational technology. 
He has in the past worked extensively on architecture, scalability and 
interoperability issues related to digital library systems.

Professor Suleman’s recent research has a growing emphasis on the 
relationship between low resource environments and architectures. This 
has evolved into a focus on societal development and its alignment with 
digital libraries and information retrieval. He is currently 
collaborating with colleagues in archiving and curation to develop a 
proof-of-concept low-resource software toolkit for robust long-term 
archiving.

He has worked closely with international and national partnerships for 
metadata archiving, including the Open Archives Initiative and the 
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.

Please join us online for this lecture.

When: Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Time: 18:00 SAST

Platform: Microsoft Teams

Please register online 
<http://icts.evlink9.net/servlet/link/61600/587613/1475906/2084004> to 
attend the lecture.

Sincerely

Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng
Vice-Chancellor

*University of Cape Town*

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