Editorial: More Covid

Abstract

South African Computer Journal has not passed through the Covid-19 pandemic unscathed. Fortunately, at time of writing, none of our editors has contracted the virus. However, we have all lost time to unaccustomed activities like online courses. Another problem many academics have had is large numbers of plagiarism cases, arising from having to switch fast to online learning with inadequate time to prepare. These problems pale into insignificance compared with the massive socioeconomic destruction around the world. Despite all this, we are able to publish a second issue to schedule in December. In this issue, most of the papers are extended papers from the inaugural Artificial Intelligence research conference, Forum on AI Research (FAIR), held in Cape Town, South Africa over 3–6 December 2019. I therefore defer the main part of editorialising on content of the issue to the guest editors, Deshendran Moodley and Marelie Davel.