Three Wits University postgraduates won second place in the SIMagine 2007 awards at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona.
The team scooped the silver award for the development of Mobiraba, a Java SIM-based cellphone version of the popular Morabaraba board game.
David Vannucci, Rolan Christian and Teddy Mwakabaga will receive 12 000 euros (about R113 000) for placing second in the competition. The event aims to stimulate the development of Java-based SIM applications around the world, says professor Barry Dwolatzky, academic director at the Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE).
"Vannucci, Christian and Mwakabaga developed the game in the Wits Convergence lab which is one of the JCSE's laboratories," says Dwolatzky. The students used a SIM toolkit provided by Gemalto as part of the competition to develop a cell version of the board game. With the SIM version, players can log onto a server via GPRS and play against each other.
Dwolatzky says all three students are using convergence as the focus of their PHDs.
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