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Tapan
Parikh is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information
at the University of California, Berkeley. For the past seven years,
Tapan has been designing, developing and deploying information systems
in the rural developing world - initially in India, and now also in
Latin America and Africa. He has published papers about user interface
design for semi-literate users, mobile computing and information
systems for supporting microfinance and smallholder agriculture.
Tapan was named Technology Review magazine's Humanitarian of the Year
for 2007. Earlier, he received the Sc.B. degree in Molecular Modeling
with Honors from Brown University, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in
Computer Science from the University of Washington.
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Yael
Schwartzman has a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of Washington, with emphasis in
Human-Computer Interaction. She received her B.A. in Computer
Science, with a minor in Business Administration and Philosophy, at
the University of San Diego in 2003 . Yael is an experienced
designer and developer of user-centered information systems. She is
currently interested in designing and developing sustainable
technological solutions worldwide. |
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Kannaiyan Sasikumar is Manager of Microfinance
Projects with ekgaon technologies. Sasi has experience in financial
management systems, enterprise resource management applications,
database development and financial analysis. His areas of interest
involve sustainable development and development finance. Sasikumar is
a commerce graduate with a post graduate degree in Finance and
Computer Applications from Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu,
India. |
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Edward
D. Lazowska holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer
Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Lazowska
received his A.B. from Brown University and his Ph.D. from the
University of Toronto. His research and teaching concern the design,
implementation, and analysis of high-performance computing and
communication systems. Lazowska is a Member of the National Academy
of Engineering, and a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS. He chaired the
CRA Board of Directors from 1997-2001, and currently chairs the DARPA
Information Science and Technology Study Group. He is a member of the
Microsoft Research Technical Advisory Board, and serves as a board
member or technical advisor to a number of high-tech companies and
venture firms. In 2003 President Bush named him to co-chair the
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. In 2005
Lazowska received the CRA Distinguished Service Award. |
| Alumni |
 | Paul Javid will complete his
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of
Washington in March, 2007. Throughout his undergraduate career Paul
has contributed to the development and implementation of information
systems for rural development. Currently he is working at Microsoft
Research India for the Digital Study Hall Project, which aims to
facilitate the transfer of good pedagogical practices to rural and
slum schools around India. |
 | Ronak Parikh is a senior at
Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, dual-majoring in
International Relations and Biomedical Engineering. He has worked in a
wide array of fields, such as environmental policy with Chile
Ambiente, in clinical research with St. Vincent's Hospital, in social
and international policy with Physicians for Human Rights, and in
developing sustainable technological solutions with the University of
Washington and Tufts University. |