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MAGUBANE’S BOOK EXPLORES LOVEIN THE ERA OF
fourth industrial revolution technologies for hyper-connection of things and novel applications of advanced wireless networks to improve lives and livelihoods of people,” he said.
He relayed that in a smart society, it is expected that human wisdom will agglutinate with the clout of intelligent machines to shape a better world, improve the well-being of people, strengthen the economy, and enhance institutional effectiveness.
“The anticipated world is characterised immensely by high productivity, improved quality of life, the reduction of hiatus between investors and markets, and the creation of new opportunities for massive economic development. However, the acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills is an integral feature of shrill readiness for a smart society.This requirement essentially demands a transformative educational pattern that is driven by technology-rich curricula, technology-pro cient trainers and pervasive accessibility to varying emerging technologies,” he said.
Prof Olugbara explained further on the development of education from the rst industrial revolution to the fourth industrial revolution in a mutual effort to provide a riposte to the open question.
“Education changes with industrialisation, but relevant transformative change in educational pattern is required to realise an inclusive, sustainable and empowered society,” he said.
Prof Olugbara also discussed a fascinating number of research projects across the world’s universities that give a pointer to the outlook of
the future society, which included robotic leagues, autonomous vehicles, bionic humanoids and the Language Immersion Robot (LIRO).
“In as much as no one can accurately predict the future, it can be constructed effectively to improve lives and livelihoods,” he said. The nal day also entailed presentations and discussions on cybersecurity, machine learning, e-health, computer networks and engineering, machine learning and arti cial intelligence and image processing.
The conference ended with the announcement of the Best Paper Award, which was given to Mohale Molefe and Jules-Raymond Tapamo for their paper titled: Classi cation of Thermite Welding Defects using Local Binary Patterns and K Nearest Neighbors.
The Runner Up Paper was titled: Micro-spatial Modelling of Malaria Cases and Environment Risk Factors in Buhera Rural District, Zimbabwe, which went to Elliot Mbunge, Richard C. Millham, Professor Nokuthula Sibiya and Sam Takavarasha Jr.
Giving thanks to the keynote speakers and authors for their scholarly contribution and their fascinating presentations was DUT’s Professor Richard Millham.
He also thanked Dr Progress Mtshali and his team for quickly stepping in and turning the conference into a virtual one and the DUT organising team for working continuously throughout the year to bring a world- class online conference.
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