Closing in Johannesburg Braamfontein Is not For the Faint of Heart After sunset. European visitors can Picked Warnings local, while the day for fourth Seems Like what Brixton or Hackney in 1980, the son of tombs caveats.On Recent THESE But a visit to View Technology Center gradually emerging from Space extraordinary co Work and create JoziHub and Other Initiatives, hay muchas Things to Bring Positive.
However, let's say it's the first time I walked 200 meters from my hotel, flanked by two large men Safety I argued with me after he rose from his club. Downtown Braamfontein is More Than The Dangerous prospect of Soweto, 20 miles to the east, where the community if charge of The Strangers, here's refreshing surprise for this IBM developed That opening of Second Research Center in Braamfontein.
Instead of placing the laboratory in a (relatively) gleaming office tower in the center or on a university campus, IBM is working with the University of Witwatersrand in your project Tshimologong Precinct in an attempt to transform Braamfontein future technological center of South Africa .The child's position in the heart of the city will allow our researchers to be part of a living laboratory to explore the role of advanced digital technologies and big data analytics in urban renewal.
Researchers from IBM and its partners will develop solutions using computational modeling, the Internet of Things and cognitive systems to engage more effectively with citizens and to establish a model for revitalizing downtown worldwide. The strategy seems to be. if we can do here, we can do it anywhere. Johannesburg laboratory is dedicated to bring to bring advanced technologies, including big data, cloud, analysis and mobile technologies to support national priorities of South Africa and to address the major continental challenges.
When completed in early 2016, the new IT center includes meeting rooms, spaces for collaboration, data center and incubator for beginning teachers, students, entrepreneurs and investors. The new research team in South Africa will be led by Dr. Solomon Assefa, who co-authored more than 50 scientific papers and 45 patents. E 'was named one of the top young innovators in the world under 35 years of MIT Technology Review in 2011 and Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
When I visited South Africa over a year ago by the IBM Research Center in New York, I was surprised with the advanced level of science and technology in the country. The country has four Nobel prizes in science and medicine, and some of the best research institutions in the world. We are determined to be part of a thriving community so that different groups of people live, work, invent and build businesses.
We believe we can play a valuable role there helping entrepreneurs to develop breakthrough technologies can bring to the market, says Dr. Solomon Assefa, director of IBM Research Laboratory in South Africa. The news of the laboratory Braamfontein comes 15 months after opening the first IBM research laboratory in Nairobi Africa and underlines its commitment to the development of Africa. The company operates in Africa for nearly 100 years. Today, with operations spanning 24 countries, including South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Kenya and Tanzania.
