Education
In mathematics from the University of Potchefstroom in South Africa, another in physics from the same institute, and a Doctor of Philosophy in operations research under the supervision of Guus Zoutendijk at the University of Leiden.
In mathematics from the University of Potchefstroom in South Africa, another in physics from the same institute, and a Doctor of Philosophy in operations research under the supervision of Guus Zoutendijk at the University of Leiden.
Dewald Roode received a Bachelor of Arts in theoretical physics, an Master of Arts In 1988 Roode was appointed to head the new Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria, while continuing on a part-time basis with consultancy work. Within five years of starting, the Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria was internationally known, and welcomed a regular stream of international visitors who contributed tremendously to the continued development of the Department. After his early retirement in 2001, Roode was a visiting professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town from 2003 till his death in 2009, and also at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology since 2004.
In 2008, he developed and presented a series of 14 seminars on research and innovation core skills for the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research).
Roode supervised more than 30 doctoral students to completion. In 2008 Dewald Roode was also honoured by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) with the highest accolade for service, the Silver Core.
Apart from his continued academic involvement with various universities, he completed a six-year term in 2007 as chair of Technical Committee 8 on Information Systems of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and was a member of the Steering Committee of IFIP’s World Information Technology Forum in Lithuania in 2003 and in Botswana in 2005.