People
From Change
Below you will find a list of faculty involved with projects in this space. You can also find a list of graduate students and postdocs.
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Faculty
| Dr. Richard Anderson's main research interests are in Educational Technology, Pen Based Computing and Computing for the Developing World. He is particularly interested in using technology to improve the classroom environment, and in educational applications of the Tablet PC. Previously, he has worked in the theory and implementation of algorithms, including parallel algorithms, computational geometry, and scientific applications. He has also worked on applying model checking to the formal verification of software sytems and has collaborated with Astrophysicists on N-Body simulation. He was a founder of the department's Professional Master's Program and led the effort to export the department's introductory programming courses using Tutored Video Instruction.
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| Dr. Tom Anderson is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Washington. Before that, he spent time at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests center around building the best computing systems he can. He is attracted to the biggest problems facing computer science today, regardless of area. With respect to low-income regions, Dr. Anderson has spent time with the Digital Study Hall project.
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| Dr. Gaetano Borriello is a professor in the UW's Computer Science and Engineering Department. His research interests are in ubiquitous and mobile computing with particular emphasis on personal sensor systems,location-based systems, and tagging with passive and active tags. In former lives, Gaetano was known for his work in automatic synthesis of digital circuits, reconfigurable hardware, and embedded systems development tools. More recently, Gaetano was PI for the Portolano Expedition, a DARPA-sponsored investigation on invisible computing and was founding director of the Intel Research Seattle laboratory. Today, Gaetano's interests are turning to the developing world and specifically to applications in health care.
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| Dr. Beth Kolko is an associate professor in the technical communication department in COE. She has been doing work on race, gender, and technology since the mid 1990s; her background combines social science and humanities with technology design with a focus on creative design for diverse populations. She began ICT4D work in 2000 when she spent 5 months in Uzbekistan on a Fulbright. Since 2002 she's conducted NSF-sponsored research in Central Asia investigating cross-cultural patterns of technology adoption and adaptation. She runs the Design for Digital Inclusion research group at UW which focuses on technology design for users in resource-constrained environments. In spring 2007 she was a visiting faculty researcher at Microsoft Research where she studied the use of social networking software via SMS interfaces common in the developing world, and she's currently a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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| Dr. Tapan S. Parikh is an assistant professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, with an affiliate appointment in Computer Science at the University of Washington. Tapan's research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), mobile computing and information systems for microfinance, smallholder agriculture and global health. He holds a Sc.B. degree in Molecular Modeling with Honors from Brown University, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Tapan was named Technology Review magazine's Humanitarian of the Year in 2007.
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External
| Dr. Neal Lesh, PhD, MPH is a global health techie who has researched and published extensively in a variety of areas including planning, intent inference, information visualization, interactive optimization, intelligent tutoring, agent interfaces, and human-computer collaboration. Dr. Lesh is currently working on creating software for healthcare workers in East Africa. He received a B.S. degree in computer science from Brown in 1991 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 1998. As a Senior Scientist at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in Boston, he managed and collaborated on many projects exploring a variety of new interfaces to allow humans and computers to cooperatively solve problems.
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