courses /fall 09 /250 B /schedule

Sept 29:

Intro

Oct 6:

Readings:

• Doing Well By Doing Good
• The Operator
• Shot Spotter
• The Trees Have Eyes
• Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth
• Everlasting Light
• Old Clean Coals
• What is this that Roareth Thus?
• Water Projects
• To Do With the Price of Fish
• Design to Kickstart Incomes

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.
• Project chosen by end of class with 6 steps to complete.

Oct 13:

Readings:

• Digital Green: Participatory Video for Agricultural Extension Rikin Gandhi, Rajesh Veeraraghavan and Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research India) and Vanaja Ramprasad (GREEN Foundation) ICTD2007

pdf here

• Pawar, U.S., Pal, J., Gupta, R., and Toyama, K. (2007). .Multiple Mice for Retention Tasks in Disadvantaged Schools.. Proc. of CHI 2007, ACM Press.

pdf here

• Tapan S. Parikh, Paul Javid, Sasikumar K., Kaushik Ghosh and Kentaro Toyama, Mobile Phones and Paper Documents: Evaluating a New Approach for Capturing Microfinance Data in Rural India, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), April 24-27, 2006

pdf here

Video:

• Bill Thies talk at Princeton

http://commons.princeton.edu/ciee/2007/03/video_providing_internet_search_for_lowconnectivit.html

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.
• Project step #1 complete

Oct 20:

Readings:

• Code is Law, by Laurence Lessig

There is a whole book by this name, but here is an abbreviated article: http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law.html

• Prahalad – Fortune at Bottom of Pyramid

http://www.expert2business.com/itson/Serving%20the%20ppor%20prahalad.pdf Article of basic idea of business for reaching the poor. He has a whole book on this. The videos from the case studies in the book are at:

Video

Fruchterman talk at UCSC on Benetech (has sound and video) mms://MEDIA.citris.berkeley.edu/5-18-07_Fruchterman

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.
• Project step #2 complete

Oct 27:

Hash Cache? Cache Storage for the Next Billion Anirudh Badam, Kyoung Soo? Park, Vivek S. Pai, Larry L. Peterson. The 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2009. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/abadam/papers/hashcache.pdf Note: There should be a tilda before abadam in the url, but it doesn't show up in the wiki.

Fingerprinting blank paper using commodity scanners Clarkson, Weyrich, Finkelstein, Heninger, Halderman, Felten http://citp.princeton.edu/pub/paper09oak.pdf

Deploying a Rural Wireless Telemedicine System: Experiences in Sustainability. Sonesh Surana, Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi and Eric Brewer. IEEE Computer. Volume 41, Number 6, pp. 48-56, June 2008. http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/tierwiki/media/c/c9/TelemedicineSustainability.pdf

Video:

• OLPC video talking about how its actually green

http://www.scribemedia.org/2008/02/20/greener-gadgets-jepsen/

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.
• Project step #3 complete

Nov 3:

The Case for Technology for Developing Regions. Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Kevin Fall, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, and Sonesh Surana. IEEE Computer. Volume 38, Number 6, pp. 25-38, June 2005. PDF http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/CFT-ieee.pdf

One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality – Communication of the ACM, Jun 1 , 2009

Economist Mobile marvels Sep 24 2009 http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmps080j/Fall09/economist.pdf

Ted Talk Hans Rosling http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.
• Project step #4 complete

Nov 10:

New Reflection Transformation Imaging Methods for Rock Art and Multiple-Viewpoint Display" Authors : Mark Mudge+, Tom Malzbender*, Carla Schroer+ Marlin Lum+ http://www.c-h-i.org/events/VAST2006_final.pdf

Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist, Chap. 10 "Forests--are we losing them?". http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmps080j/Spring07/lomborg.pdf

Suggested by Rob Chalhoub: The Challenges of Technology Research for Developing Regions. Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Melissa Ho, R.J. Honicky, Joyojeet Pal, Madelaine Plauché,and Sonesh Surana.IEEE Pervasive Computing. Volume 5, Number 2, pp. 15-23, April-June 2006. http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/challenges-ieee.pdf

TED Talk Lomberg http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/62

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.
• Project step #5 complete

Nov 17:

Assassination Politics http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm

Why I wrote PGP http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

Suggested by Chris Wilks

Analysis of WWW Traffic in Cambodia and Ghana

15th International WWW Conference 2006. This is an academic paper about the analysis of network traces of developing c ountries' network traffic. The paper seeks to not only classify the traffic b ut to also reason about what's needed in making the Internet a better experien ce for the denizens of these countries. I looked at this paper because I'm in terested in classification statistics of Internet usage, but I think it has a nice technical flavor (caching is discussed) with a social improvement bent.

Suggested by Zeb: TED TALK:James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when You Tube? video, blogs, IMs and txts carried t... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Xm4ufnoxY)

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.
• Project step #6 complete

Nov 24:

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.
• Project documentation/writeup/etc

Dec 1:

Medhi, I. and Toyama, K. Full-Context Videos for First-Time, Non-Literate PC Users. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, India, (2007).

Neil Patel, Sheetal Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, Amit Nanavati, Paresh Dave and Tapan S. Parikh, A Comparative Study of Speech and Dialed Input Voice Interfaces in Rural India, Note, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), April 6-9, 2009, Boston, MA

Due:

• Reading reflection 1/2 page.