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  Prof Edwin H. Blake
Department of Computer Science
University of Cape Town
Private Bag X3
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa.
Tel: +27 21 650 3661
Fax: +27 21 689 9465
edwin at cs dot uct dot ac dot za


 
 
Research, Research Courses and Opinions

This Home Page is about my research interests and the occasional opinions I might have on Computer Science related issues.

My research has almost always been involved with the relationship of people to computers. This has covered Human-Computer Interaction related fields such as Computer Graphics (CG), Visualization and Virtual Reality (VR) as well as social aspects such as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Policy, the use of ICT for Socio-Economic Development, and (what we have called) Socially Aware Software Engineering (SE). The exception to this general rule has been in programming paradigms for graphics

 
 
 
 

Opinions

Action Research: for When You Don’t Really Have a Clue

Experimental Computer Science I regard myself as an Experimental Computer Scientist ...

Faking Things I have always been intrigued by the ways in which Virtual Environments fool people ...

ICT Policy I originally tried to tackle Government ICT policy issues directly ...

ICT for Development There are clear differences between making ICT solutions for developing countries versus those for developed countries ...

 Mobile Phone Operators Considered Harmful They helped but from now on they are turning into an impediment to development