ACCELERATING RESEARCH
UCT eResearch is a distributed centre that promotes the use of advanced information technologies in supporting innovative research practice and accelerating and transforming research throughout the research lifecycle.
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Celebrating research software at South Africa's top science awards
The Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy (CARTA) team, based in the Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA), received the inaugural NSTF-South32 Research Software Award in 2026.
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UCT researchers build better research software through collaborative Python workshop
Researchers from five UCT research environments joined colleagues and international facilitators for a three-day workshop exploring practical ways to make Python research software more readable, reliable and maintainable.
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AI may change how research software is built — but not why it matters
UCT eResearch recently participated in an international workshop in Edinburgh that aimed to explore how generative AI is changing the way research software is developed.
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