Hosted Visitors

as Host, G Marsden

• Dr. Matt Jones from Waikato, New Zealand
• Dr. Murray Pearson from Waikato, New Zealand
• Profs. Ben Shneiderman and Jenny Preece from University of Maryland, USA, who gave public talks at UCT, with sponsorship from Microsoft.

as Host, P Kritzinger

• Professor S Budkowski, Director of Research, Institut National des Télécommunications in Evry, France for 5 days in November.

Invited Colloquiua

• Frank Dehne, Carleton University (Canada), Coarse Grained Parallel Computing, Parallel Data Warehousing/OLAP and Parallel Bioinformatics, 5 February
• Matt Jones, University of Waikato (New Zealand), Realistic books in digital libraries: A bizarre homage to an obsolete medium?, 11 March
• Anthony Chang, UCT-EE, Wireless Data Network and Systems, 23 March
• Murray Pearson, University of Waikato (New Zealand), Connecting Rural communites using WiFi, 15 April
• Michelle Kuttel, UCT-CS, Computational Chemistry and Carbohydrates, 20 May
• Shaun Nirenstein, UCT-CS, Hardware Accelerated Visibility Preprocessing using Adaptive Sampling, 10 June
• Edwin H. Blake, UCT-CS, and William D. Tucker, UWC, Bridging Communications Across the Digital Divide, 17 June
• Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, (USA), DiffXML- Detecting Changes in XML Data, 23 June
• Jennifer Husler, bridges.org, Tackling the digital divide in Africa: what part can computer scientists play?, 19 August
• Richard Southern, University of Cambridge (UK), The Trouble with Subdivision Surfaces, 2 September
• Dave Nunez, UCT-CS, Working Memory and Presence: Reconsidering the Role of Attention in Presence, 7 October
• Morgan Collett, MCode, The real world: A UCT Grad's experiences, 14 October
• Rudi Westerveld, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), High Speed Mobile Data Communication, case study on TU Delft UMTS test bed, 15 November