SoTE: Information Technology

This program talks tech with a webmaster, a multimedia specialist, a computer-aided drafter/designer, a network/systems administrator, a cybersecurity expert, and a computer repair technician—a few of the people working with today’s high-end hardware and software to shape the present and create the future.

Dr. Soper gives an introductory lecture on database technologies. Topics covered include the reasons for using a database, the components of a database system, the elements of a database, the purpose of database management systems (DBMS), and the functions of a database application.

Jamie Bartlett visits the future and discovers what it has in store for the rest of us. He meets the people transforming the way we live and work through 'disruption', discovering the truth about the dystopian future that awaits us all – ending up in the island hideaway of the former Facebook executive who is prepping for the economic apocalypse.

What will our world look like in 25 years’ time? No one knows for sure. By that time our work may have been entirely taken over by autonomic robots. Our world controlled by a single global brain as we are left to be slaves to the technology we were responsible for creating.

Professor Jim al-Khalili takes a sharp-witted and optimistic look at machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind – and why we should not let this spook us.

Tech startups are getting a huge push, thanks to the development of Nigeria's own take on California's Silicon Valley; ICANN's Africa VP discusses the importance of the internet.

Jamie Bartlett visits the future and discovers what it has in store for the rest of us. He meets the people transforming the way we live and work through 'disruption', discovering the truth about the dystopian future that awaits us all – ending up in the island hideaway of the former Facebook executive who is prepping for the economic apocalypse.

A video lecture presenting research on the latest technological advances associated with Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce).