Excited to announce that @MakerereU AirQo project won a grant from Google.org as part of #GoogleAI Impact Challenge. We're receiving funding, AI expertise & resources to monitor, analyse, raise awareness & develop solutions to air quality issues g.co/aichallenge Makerere University CoCIS

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Hey Twitter, Africa is hosting its first Elixir conference ever and we would like to make it big with your support. Kindly refer us to any companies who work with Elixir in Africa whether startup or corporate. #myelixirstatus

Also, we would really appreciate it if other Elixir communities in Africa may be willing to come forward and give us a hand. We are promoting inclusivity and diversity. #myelixirstatus

Happy to announce the new website of my research group soft.vub.ac.be/disco #disco SoftwareLanguagesLab DINF@VUB VUB

Happy to have our first physical lab meeting since the start of the pandemic in style! Action shot of Isaac Nyabisa Oteyo presenting his work on low code tools for smart agriculture.

Trying to have an onsite @VMIL2021 workshop experience from #vub #SPLASH2021

Some action shots from @carllocos presenting “WOOD: Extending a WebAssembly VM with Out-of-Place Debugging for IoT applications” at @VMIL2021 #SPLASH2021 Preprint available at soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…

Congratulations to our brand-new SoftwareLanguagesLab DINF@VUB @vub doctor, Dr. Matteo Marra, who defended his PhD thesis "A live debugging approach for Big Data processing applications” yesterday! Action shot with the proud promotors Elisa Gonzalez Boix and Guillermo Polito included.

The School of Computing & IT, JKUAT held a public lecture earlier today on Higher Order Programming. The Guest Speaker & JKUAT Alumni, Mr. Samuel Ngugi, from Vrije University of Brussels, Belgium took the Students through selected topics on Programming & Higher Order Procedures.

Congratulations to freshly-minted SoftwareLanguagesLab VUB PhD in CS, Dr. Oteyo Isaac Nyabisa Oteyo, who defended his thesis "DisCoPar-Kilimo: A Low-Code Development Environment Geared Towards Smart Agriculture Applications" on Friday!! Proud promotors Elisa Gonzalez Boix Wolfgang De Meuter Angel Luis Scull Pup.

Full dissertation available from soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…

We were proud to host SoftwareLanguagesLab graduate Engineer Bainomugisha last week for the occasion of Isaac Nyabisa Oteyo's PhD defence. In his talk "AI and software engineering research for social impact" Engineer Bainomugisha presented an impressive overview of his work at Makerere University in Uganda.

Goodbye Isaac Nyabisa Oteyo ! The Disco family wishes u the best in your next step at the academic life!

🚀 Only 10 days left! Join us for the 1st Belgian Local-First Software Meetup on Fri, 23/08! It's free but registration is required. eventbrite.be/e/belgian-loca… #LocalFirst #SoftwareMeetup #BelgiumTech #vub

Everything we enjoy today is a result of researchers who sacrificed their precious time to view problems, ask questions, and seek answers!

“Science is a discipline in which the fool of this generation goes beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.” Gluckman.

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About to start the participatory road infrastructure monitoring in Kampala. #CoCIS #SystemsSoftwareCentre

Counting is surprisingly difficult at scale and in practice, and, of course, it appears everywhere. #RandomEncounters