SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY     NOTE:  Kindly check with the department for more details.

Google student ambassador program & GDG  JKUAT brings you Google I/O 2014 Extended JKUAT, Main Campus Date:  25th June 2014 Time: 6pm until morning Venue: NSC Lecture Theatre 1 & Lab3 Live streaming of the event from  San Fransisco USA. Keynote code sessions and code jam hackthons speaker sessions and more Free refreshments , food for coding sessions, amazing goodies Register Link Goo.gl/cbBSPt Please contact for more infor: gohel.chintan@students.ac.ke Tel no. 0713662894

The next K4 life classes will start on 5th July 2014, this was announced yesterday by Chairman IT and the Seven Seas team during a sensitization forum used to select students who will participate. It was noted that every year JKUAT IT Department produce more than 50% of graduates in Kenya. This has been attributed by partnerships with IT  firms like Seven Seas and frequent revising the syllabus. Current course structures have more practical content which has enabled our graduates to have a competitive advantage. Story & photo compiled by Kariuki JK

  WHERE: JKUAT, IT DEPARTMENT LECTURE HALL 3 WHEN: Wednesday June 18, 2014, 11:00 am. The next K4 life classes will start on 5th of July and this will be a sensitization forum from which we can select students who shall participate.

Chief information officers specialising in technology will on 17/06/2014 converge in Nairobi to discuss four key pillars of the sector following proliferation of IT in East Africa. The event, organised by technology researcher International Data Corporation (IDC), will explore challenges brought about by cloud computing, big data use, mobility and social media. “The last five years have seen emergence of a new computingera,” said Mr Onesmus Mbogo country manager IDC East Africa. “We want to take more than 100 technology officers through important steps that will help them stand the test of these changes.”IDC will… Continue reading →

Nairobi, Kenya: The insecurity Kenya is currently facing largely due to acts of terrorism has motivated one innovator to come up with a technology that could fix this problem once and for all. Robert Malanya, a student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), says to dry up terrorism, getting proper records of details pertaining to every Kenyan is a good place to start. “Our biggest problem is that due to a poor record management system, our government and security forces do not have the records of everyone in the country. My innovation… Continue reading →

Three JKUAT female students Tuesday May 27, 2014 won the Safaricom Technovation Challenge, for developing a mosquito repellent application dubbed Quitmosquito. The Second year Computer Science majors comprising Pauline Mbabu, Caroline Kimathi and Nancy Adhiambo emerged top with their innovation that employs ultrasonic sound frequencies to cause stress to mosquitoes, hence keeping them at bay. The App also integrates a music player for entertainment and to minimize user irritation at low frequencies. The award saw the creative minds each pocket a tablet, certificate and trophy besides wining the School of Computing and Information Technology six… Continue reading →

Theme: Nurturing career for sustainable economic development. DATE: 11,12 & 13th June 2014 VENUE: Assembly hall programme DAY 1 TIME VENUE TOPIC/ PRESENTOR/ORG/COMPANY 11/06/2014 0900 – 1300  Assembly Hall Official launch of fair.   Topic:Opportunities within Oil and Gas in the Kenyan Economy Bill Lay Director of Oil and Gas; KK Services   Topic: Key factors on the inception of sustainable SME’s. SriramBharatam CEO KuzaBiashara   Topic:  Personal life history Eric Ngondi JKUAT alumnus   Vice Chancellor Prof. Mabel Imbuga         DAY 2 TIME VENUE TOPIC/ PRESENTOR/ORG/COMPANY ENGINEERING TODAY, ENGINEERING TOMORROW AND… Continue reading →