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Computer Science Research at Makerere University: Tuesday, June 27, 1:30 PM, CSE2 371
by Richard Anderson 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

Computer Science Research at Makerere University Tuesday, June 27, 1:30 PM, CSE2 371 Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, is one of the leading universities in Africa. The Allen School has a number of joint projects with Makerere, including the Makerere Scholars' Program which supports CS PhD students to visit the Allen school for one year to work with research mentors. Two of the Computer Science faculty from Makerere, Engineer Bainomugisha and Joyce Nabende are visiting the Allen School this week, and will give a survey of on going computer science research in their department. This will include both work in Systems including cloud technologies for low resource settings and well as work in AI with applications to health and agriculture. Please attend this talk if you are interested in learning more about Computer Science Research in Africa, and partnerships we are building in the Allen School. Engineer Bainomugisha <https://ibaino.net> is an Associate Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Makerere University, Uganda where he works on problems related to urban environmental sustainability, cloud computing in low-resource settings, and security in mobile money systems. Engineer leads the AirQo research center<https://airqo.africa> that develops and deploys low-cost sensing and AI systems for environmental air pollution monitoring and analysis in 10+ African cities. He leads the Crane Cloud research team <https://cranecloud.io> on cloud native technologies in low-resource settings and is also a co-founder of Sunbird AI<https://sunbird.ai>, AI for social impact non profit based in Kampala, Uganda. He previously worked on programming language engineering for mobile systems at Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Belgium. Engineer's contact: baino(a)mak.ac.ug<mailto:baino@mak.ac.ug> or bainomugisha(a)gmail.com<mailto:bainomugisha@gmail.com> Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Makerere University. She heads the Makerere Artificial Intelligence Lab, a research lab in the Department of Computer Science. She is also a board member of Data Science Africa which aims to grow a critical mass of Data Science professionals in Africa to meet the increasing demand in the private and public sectors. Her research interests are Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Responsible AI. Currently, she is researching in several areas in the use of machine learning in health and agriculture domains in the developing world. Email: joyce.nabende(a)mak.ac.ug<mailto:joyce.nabende@mak.ac.ug> or jnakatumba(a)gmail.com<mailto:jnakatumba@gmail.com>

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Summer change talk: LLMs in Agriculture. 1:30 pm Friday, June 23, CSE2 371 - Adding zoom link
by Richard Anderson 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

We will have a special change talk on Friday afternoon. The speakers will talk about the work that they are doing with Digital Green to apply ChatGPT to a vast corpus a locally created agriculture videos to create tools to support agriculture extension and smallholder farmers – this is incredibly cool work! Jobs & TechArt to LLMs in Agriculture: Gooey.AI creators Archana Prasad and Sean Blagsvedt The founders of Gooey.AI share their journeys and thoughts on the future of AI and its impact in the development and culture sectors. This talk will cover Archana’s Prasad work in bridging the Tech and Culture communities from jaaga.in<http://jaaga.in>, to social networking with Dara and its interactive RadBots and ultimately the low-code GenAI platform Gooey.AI. We’ll also explore our evolution with IVR, SMS and Facebook chat interfaces for informal sector job seekers to Farmer.CHAT, a multi-lingual, GPT4 + VectorDB powered WhatsApp audio bot for smallholder farmers recently demoed at the UN General Assembly. About the speakers: Archana Prasad has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for the last 2 decades. She is the CoFounder of Gooey.AI. Previously, she founded Dara.network, a messaging app to enhance social capital among artists and alumni groups. She’s also the founder of Jaaga.in and BeFantastic.in - India’s first TechArt festival. Previously, she was a Design Researcher in Microsoft Research India. She holds 3 patents, two master degrees from India’s National Institute of Design and Chitrakala Parishat is an ATSA and tarchaClore/Chevening Fellow. Sean Blagsvedt is the Cofounder of Gooey.AI and Dara.network. Previously he founded Babajob.com in 2007 which became India’s largest informal sector job site with 9M users and facilitated over 500,000 hires (as verified by USAID). Sean helped found Microsoft Research India, holds 29 patents and is a TED and Unreasonable Goals Fellow. He received a Bachelor Degree in CS and Public Policy from Brown University. Remote attendees can use the link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91561288179

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Computer Science Research at Makerere University: Tuesday, June 27, 1:30 PM, CSE2 371
by Richard Anderson 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

Computer Science Research at Makerere University Tuesday, June 27, 1:30 PM, CSE2 371 Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, is one of the leading universities in Africa. The Allen School has a number of joint projects with Makerere, including the Makerere Scholars' Program which supports CS PhD students to visit the Allen school for one year to work with research mentors. Two of the Computer Science faculty from Makerere, Engineer Bainomugisha and Joyce Nabende are visiting the Allen School this week, and will give a survey of on going computer science research in their department. This will include both work in Systems including cloud technologies for low resource settings and well as work in AI with applications to health and agriculture. Please attend this talk if you are interested in learning more about Computer Science Research in Africa, and partnerships we are building in the Allen School. Engineer Bainomugisha <https://ibaino.net> is an Associate Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Makerere University, Uganda where he works on problems related to urban environmental sustainability, cloud computing in low-resource settings, and security in mobile money systems. Engineer leads the AirQo research center<https://airqo.africa> that develops and deploys low-cost sensing and AI systems for environmental air pollution monitoring and analysis in 10+ African cities. He leads the Crane Cloud research team <https://cranecloud.io> on cloud native technologies in low-resource settings and is also a co-founder of Sunbird AI<https://sunbird.ai>, AI for social impact non profit based in Kampala, Uganda. He previously worked on programming language engineering for mobile systems at Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Belgium. Engineer's contact: baino(a)mak.ac.ug<mailto:baino@mak.ac.ug> or bainomugisha(a)gmail.com<mailto:bainomugisha@gmail.com> Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Makerere University. She heads the Makerere Artificial Intelligence Lab, a research lab in the Department of Computer Science. She is also a board member of Data Science Africa which aims to grow a critical mass of Data Science professionals in Africa to meet the increasing demand in the private and public sectors. Her research interests are Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Responsible AI. Currently, she is researching in several areas in the use of machine learning in health and agriculture domains in the developing world. Email: joyce.nabende(a)mak.ac.ug<mailto:joyce.nabende@mak.ac.ug> or jnakatumba(a)gmail.com

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Re: [change] Summer change talk: LLMs in Agriculture. 1:30 pm Friday, June 23, CSE2 371
by Richard Anderson 20 Jun '23

20 Jun '23

Building/Room correction. CSE2 371. Bill and Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science and Engineering. From: change <change-bounces(a)dub.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Richard Anderson Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 4:04 PM To: change(a)cs.washington.edu Subject: [change] Summer change talk: LLMs in Agriculture. 1:30 pm Friday, June 23, CSE2 371 We will have a special change talk on Friday afternoon. The speakers will talk about the work that they are doing with Digital Green to apply ChatGPT to a vast corpus a locally created agriculture videos to create tools to support agriculture extension and smallholder farmers – this is incredibly cool work! Jobs & TechArt to LLMs in Agriculture: Gooey.AI creators Archana Prasad and Sean Blagsvedt The founders of Gooey.AI share their journeys and thoughts on the future of AI and its impact in the development and culture sectors. This talk will cover Archana’s Prasad work in bridging the Tech and Culture communities from jaaga.in<http://jaaga.in>, to social networking with Dara and its interactive RadBots and ultimately the low-code GenAI platform Gooey.AI. We’ll also explore our evolution with IVR, SMS and Facebook chat interfaces for informal sector job seekers to Farmer.CHAT, a multi-lingual, GPT4 + VectorDB powered WhatsApp audio bot for smallholder farmers recently demoed at the UN General Assembly. About the speakers: Archana Prasad has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for the last 2 decades. She is the CoFounder of Gooey.AI. Previously, she founded Dara.network, a messaging app to enhance social capital among artists and alumni groups. She’s also the founder of Jaaga.in and BeFantastic.in - India’s first TechArt festival. Previously, she was a Design Researcher in Microsoft Research India. She holds 3 patents, two master degrees from India’s National Institute of Design and Chitrakala Parishat is an ATSA and tarchaClore/Chevening Fellow. Sean Blagsvedt is the Cofounder of Gooey.AI and Dara.network. Previously he founded Babajob.com in 2007 which became India’s largest informal sector job site with 9M users and facilitated over 500,000 hires (as verified by USAID). Sean helped found Microsoft Research India, holds 29 patents and is a TED and Unreasonable Goals Fellow. He received a Bachelor Degree in CS and Public Policy from Brown University.

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Summer change talk: LLMs in Agriculture. 1:30 pm Friday, June 23, CSE3 371
by Richard Anderson 20 Jun '23

20 Jun '23

We will have a special change talk on Friday afternoon. The speakers will talk about the work that they are doing with Digital Green to apply ChatGPT to a vast corpus a locally created agriculture videos to create tools to support agriculture extension and smallholder farmers – this is incredibly cool work! Jobs & TechArt to LLMs in Agriculture: Gooey.AI creators Archana Prasad and Sean Blagsvedt The founders of Gooey.AI share their journeys and thoughts on the future of AI and its impact in the development and culture sectors. This talk will cover Archana’s Prasad work in bridging the Tech and Culture communities from jaaga.in<http://jaaga.in>, to social networking with Dara and its interactive RadBots and ultimately the low-code GenAI platform Gooey.AI. We’ll also explore our evolution with IVR, SMS and Facebook chat interfaces for informal sector job seekers to Farmer.CHAT, a multi-lingual, GPT4 + VectorDB powered WhatsApp audio bot for smallholder farmers recently demoed at the UN General Assembly. About the speakers: Archana Prasad has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for the last 2 decades. She is the CoFounder of Gooey.AI. Previously, she founded Dara.network, a messaging app to enhance social capital among artists and alumni groups. She’s also the founder of Jaaga.in and BeFantastic.in - India’s first TechArt festival. Previously, she was a Design Researcher in Microsoft Research India. She holds 3 patents, two master degrees from India’s National Institute of Design and Chitrakala Parishat is an ATSA and tarchaClore/Chevening Fellow. Sean Blagsvedt is the Cofounder of Gooey.AI and Dara.network. Previously he founded Babajob.com in 2007 which became India’s largest informal sector job site with 9M users and facilitated over 500,000 hires (as verified by USAID). Sean helped found Microsoft Research India, holds 29 patents and is a TED and Unreasonable Goals Fellow. He received a Bachelor Degree in CS and Public Policy from Brown University.

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Doctoral Summer School on Sustainable ICT (SICT),
by Kurtis Heimerl 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Dear all, We *invite you to register* for the 4th edition of our *Doctoral Summer School on Sustainable ICT (SICT)*, taking place in *English* and *in-person* from *July 03 to July 07* in *Grenoble, France*. Please register via the link to the registration form on our website: *https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/registration* <https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/registration> At SICT 2023, we will investigate the theme of *"Radical changes for sustainable and equitable ICT in times of compounding crises"*. Please check out the full abstract here: *https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/media/abstract-sict2023.pdf* <https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/media/abstract-sict2023.pdf> We are excited for our week on this theme with everyone attending. Please find the continuously updated *program* for SICT 2023 here: *https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/program-2023* <https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/program-2023> At this time, *registration costs EUR 300* (without banquet) and *EUR 335* (with banquet). We have been working hard to put SICT 2023 together and hope to experience this week together with many of you! Please forward this message to people (PhD students, colleagues, friends) who might be interested in attending (thank you!). Kind regards SICT 2023 Organizing Team *https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com* <https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com> -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Teaching/Learning Digital Equity Workshops June 16 and June 23
by Dharma Dailey 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Hello Change List, I am one of a group of educators who started a community-based learning project this year called Dear Digital Equity <https://www.deardigitalequity.org/> with students at UW Bothell. The purpose of the project is to raise the visibility of digital equity issues and those working on those issues especially in Washington state. We are looking to connect with other educators who are working with students in or around the topic of digital equity. We have two upcoming workshops where we hope to do some informal learning and networking with other educators who are integrating digital equity and related topics into their teaching and mentoring. <https://www.deardigitalequity.org/design-jams> Even if “digital equity” is not your jam, we workshop organizers would appreciate connecting with other faculty, students, and staff who have insights into equity + learning. These workshops are simply some devoted time together to exchange and connect. Remote Design Jam on Friday, June 16th, 10a-11:30a PST (RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccg-eWiZtssP6hm362t9wUOuHRZCZu58i…>) Lunch and In-Person Design Jam at UW Bothell on Friday, June 23, 11a-3p PST (RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccg-eWiZtssP6hm362t9wUOuHRZCZu58i…>) If other educator, students, or staff come to mind who might be interested in joining us, please feel free to pass along the invitation. We are providing lunch on the 23, so we definitely appreciate an RSVP. If you can’t make either session, but want to follow up that can be arranged. : > Best Regards, Dharma Dailey Dharma Dailey (she/her) Research Associate, Human Centered Data Science, eScience Institute Bothell Computing & Software Systems Part-time Faculty University of Washington dharmadailey.info <http://dharmadailey.info/>

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ICTD Capstone Presentations (CSE 482b), Tuesday, June 6, 2:30-4 pm, CSE2 371
by Richard Anderson 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

ICTD Capstone Presentations (CSE 482B). Tuesday, June 6, 2:30-4:00 pm, CSE2 371 The ICTD Capstone (CSE 482B) brings together groups of students to work on projects to provide solutions for low resource environments. Based on an initial project idea, the students are charged with designing and developing a prototype system . This quarter, the projects were drawn from the domain of Global Health. Two of the projects were motivated by the availability of low-cost mobile EKG devices which can help diagnosis various heart diseases, such as atrial-fibrillation. The projects consider aspects of how these devices could be used in low resource settings to triage heart conditions. The other two projects were in collaboration with doctors from Children's Hospital who are developing new protocols for detecting respiratory problems in Uganda. They have developed a mobile application (ALRITE: Acute Lower Respiratory Illness Treatment and Evaluation) for supporting a diagnostic protocol, and the students extended the system to support scalability to large deployments. Students will give final presentations and project demos on Tuesday, June 6, 2:30-4:00 pm in CSE2 371. The presentations will also be available on zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98302897925 The projects are: Integrating mobile apps with OpenMRS The current ALRITE application saves patient records locally to the device which limits opportunities for collaboration and scalability among different clinics in Uganda. The project integrates the ALRITE Application with OpenMRS, an open-source medical record system to create a streamlined syncing process for patient records. The integration between ALRITE and OpenMRS enables creation of patient records, recording visit information and the diagnoses and treatment plans generated by the mobile application. This project is a proof of concept that shows that OpenMRS is an appropriate backend for medical protocol apps, and gives a pathway for deployment of these apps in multiple domains. A Platform for Customizing Protocol Apps The ALRITE application is a stand alone Android Application. This means that whenever changes are needed to update wording, data fields, or the branching logic, it is necessary to go back to a software developer, a time consuming and expensive proposition. The project was to develop a digital editor which would allow a health researcher with limited coding knowledge to edit the existing ALRITE application to create a new diagnosis workflow. This workflow is then sent to pre-existing question templates which are filled in with the data received from the editor, resulting in a question by question examination ultimately leading to a diagnosis. Templates include text input, multiple selection, and multiple choice, the digital editor serves as a webpage which allows for recovery of previous workflows and easy editing of existing workflows. Explainable AI for Interpreting ECGs Currently, there are many ML models that, given a patient's ECG, can diagnose whether that patient has A-fib with high accuracy. The issue with many of these models is that they are black-box models which make it difficult for community healthcare workers to interpret their decisions. Our solution is AFib-XAI, a program that uses explainable AI methods to display the important data points and regions of interest in an ECG that were factored into a model's A-fib diagnosis, as well as generate accurate, human-readable explanations for that model's diagnosis. AFib-XAI can be run through a command-line interface. The program offers a selection of 3 A-fib diagnostic deep learning models and 4 SHAP-based explainability methods. The user must provide an ECG, make a model selection, and select an explainability method. Afterward, the program will be run. Once the program has finished running, the user will be given a visual result from the SHAP explainability method, as well as a very basic text explanation generated from the results. ECG Training Application for Community Health Workers Mobile ECG devices make it possible to perform community screening for heart conditions. When these screenings are performed by front line health workers, it is necessary to provide some basic health training to the workers to help them explain the results to patients. This projected developed an ECG training app designed specifically for Indian Volunteer healthcare workers (ASHAs). The app has training lessons on the basics of reading ECGs tailored specifically for ASHAs, and includes practice questions and progress updates. Through user testing, the design and lessons are simple and easy to navigate, giving the app the potential to be utilized by ASHAs in the future.

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