Computer Science Researchers Win Best Paper Award

Kevin Glass and Shaun Bangay won the Best Paper Award at the annual conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT) 2007.  In announcing the award, Prof. Jean Greyling, the conference chairman, said "the Program Chairs [stated] that this was a very easy choice, since the reviews from your paper made it very clearly the best paper.  You have something to be proud of!".  The paper was entitled Constraint-Based Conversion of Fiction Text to Time-Based Graphical Representation, and dealt with aspects of Kevin Glass' PhD research programme in the fields of virtual reality and natural language processing.

Also presenting their work at the conference were:

• Colin Chibaya and Shaun Bangay: A probabilistic movement model for shortest path formation in virtual ant-like agents.
• Mamello Thinyane, Lorenzo Dalvit, Thandeka Mapi, Alfredo Terzoli and Peter Clayton: An ontology-based, multi-modal platform for the inclusion of marginalised rural communities into the knowledge society