The eighth issue of Wits University’s research magazine is themed: #Code – any systems, letters and symbols that have meaning, are representative or govern behaviour. Today #Code is also associated with computer coding, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. In this issue our researchers explore not only these Fourth Industrial Revolution manifestations of code, but also our genetic code, cryptic codes in queer conversation, political speak and knitting, and interpreting meaning through words, animation, theatre, and graffiti. We delve into data surveillance, the 21st Century ‘Big Brothers’ and privacy, and we take a gander at how to win the Lottery by leveraging the universal code of mathematics.
Produced by Wits Communications, Curios.ty is a print and digital magazine that tells the stories of pioneering research through the voices of the talented researchers, students and academics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
