Barry Dwolatzky
Barry Dwolatzky (29 April 1952 – 16 May 2023) was a South African software engineer. He was a professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand Joburg Centre for Software Engineering. Dwolatzky was on University of the People's computer science advisory board. He was an anti-apartheid activist and in the late 1980s he joined the African National Congress's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe ("spear of the nation"). Education 

Dwolatzky completed a Bachelors of Science degree in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1979, both in electrical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and GEC Marconi. Career 

In 1989, Dwolatzky joined University of the Witwatersrand as a senior lecturer, becoming a full professor in 2000. He was an emeritus professor at the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering. Dwolatzky was on University of the People's computer science advisory board. Dwolatzky was a fellow of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers and The Institute of IT Professionals South Africa (IITPSA). Death 

Dwolatzky died in Johannesburg on 16 May 2023, at the age of 71. References

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1950s births
Year of birth uncertain
2023 deaths
Place of birth missing
20th-century South African engineers
South African electrical engineers
Software engineers
21st-century South African engineers
University of the Witwatersrand alumni
Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand
University of the People people
South African computer programmers
White South African anti-apartheid activists