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Essays, white papers and applied reports from the faculty, students and laboratories of the Institute.
Featured · Essay
The end of the software engineer as sole author
Why the next generation of engineers will be measured by taste, judgment and the intelligence of the systems they orchestrate.
Adaeze Okafor · Dec 2025
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Field report
What we learned shipping ten AI agents in production
Evals, guardrails, cost curves and the operational patterns that separate demoware from real deployments.
Kenji Watanabe · Nov 2025
White paper
Reference architectures for enterprise SaaS in 2026
A canonical stack for teams building AI-native SaaS — from schema to billing to churn instrumentation.
Henri Laurent · Nov 2025
Case study
Digital twins for African port logistics
Inside a nine-month IASE Labs engagement modelling live vessel movement across three West African ports.
Amara Diallo · Oct 2025
Essay
Portfolio, not credential
The Institute's admissions philosophy — and why we grade what you have built, not what you claim to know.
Naledi Khumalo · Oct 2025
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