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X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Sidney Pacific Presidential Fellows Distinguished Lecture 
 "Designing Technologies for Global Social Inclusion"
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DESCRIPTION:MIT Sidney Pacific Presidential Fellows Distinguished Lecture "
 Designing Technologies for Global Social Inclusion" by Dr. Bill Thies and 
 Dr. Indrani Medhi Thies\n\nTalk        Designing Technologies for Global S
 ocial Inclusion Abstract \n\nThe benefits of novel technologies are often 
 out of reach for the poorest billion on the planet.  In addition to making
  things faster\, bigger\, and more complex\, can we make things radically 
 cheaper\, simpler\, and more inclusive?  In this talk\, we will describe s
 ome of our successes\, failures\, and lessons learned in designing such "f
 rugal technologies" in India over the past ten years.  Drawing on projects
  in health and other domains\, we will synthesize our experiences into a s
 et of recommendations for anyone seeking to have social impact via technol
 ogy.Bio\n\nDr. Bill Thies and Dr. Indrani Medhi Thies are researchers at M
 icrosoft Research.  Bill was trained as a computer scientist\, earning his
  B.S.\, M.Eng.\, and Ph.D. degrees from MIT.  His distinctions include the
  John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. 
  Indrani was trained in architecture and design\, earning her Ph.D. from I
 IT Bombay.  She has been recognized with an MIT TR35 award as well as the 
 ACM SIGCHI Social Impact award.  After living and working in India\, Bill 
 and Indrani recently shifted to Cambridge and are excited to re-engage wit
 h the MIT community.\n CoSI is a graduate student organization dedicated t
 o stimulate and foster intellectual exchanges among the MIT community. We 
 contribute to the MIT's Office of Graduate Education's vision to foster ac
 ademic excellence and quality of life for MIT's community of graduate stud
 ents. Over the decade\, the CoSI have had the privilege of hosting a diver
 se set of distinguished speakers\, including Rafael Reif (MIT President)\,
  Dr. Rai Weiss (Nobel Laureate)\, Noam Chomsky (Institute Professor Emerit
 us)\, and others.
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LOCATION:Building NW86\, MIT Sidney Pacific Multipurpose Conference Room
SUMMARY:MIT Sidney Pacific Presidential Fellows Distinguished Lecture "Desi
 gning Technologies for Global Social Inclusion"
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 l_fellows_distinguished_lecture
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Seminars/Lectures
CATEGORIES:Career Development
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