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FW: ELISS
by Deborah Wolf 20 May '13

20 May '13

See below for information on ELISS: Emerging Leaders In Science and Society: The UW is one of four founding campuses, and pre-applications for the pilot class of 2014 will be accepted until June 14. From: Nisha Randhava [mailto:nrandha@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 3:21 PM To: Deborah Wolf Subject: Re: ELISS For those of you interested in bridging the gap between science and policy please see the information below. Dear Graduate and Professional Students at the University of Washington, This past fall, many of you participated in an online signature drive in support of a new professional development program for graduate and professional students who are eager to contribute to solutions to real-world problems. We submitted enough signatures to earn the University of Washington an invitation to become one of only four founding partner campuses for this competitive, national program. Emerging Leaders in Science and Society (ELISS) is now recruiting graduate and professional student volunteers from ALL fields - including professional programs like law and medicine, natural and social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the arts - for this competitive (2-5 fellows per campus), extra-curricular (2-5 hours per week), year-long (Jan - Dec 2014) experience. To be eligible, you must be enrolled in a graduate or professional program through at least the end of 2014 and complete a short pre-application by June 15, 2013. See our website for more information and to apply: www.aaas.org/eliss<http://www.aaas.org/eliss>. ELISS fellows will collaborate with students from other campuses and at home to gather expertise from your communities to illuminate the causes and potential courses of action to address a societal challenge in one of our theme areas: Energy & Environment or Health & Wellbeing. Fellows will create an online resource; organize events in their home communities; and attend a final briefing in Washington D.C. In return, fellows will gain leadership skills, join a diverse and dynamic professional network, and identify opportunities to contribute to society throughout their professional and civic lives. ELISS will provide training, tools, mentors, and funds to support fellows' initiatives and leadership development. ELISS is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which publishes Science magazine, and is supported in part by the University of Washington's Graduate School. Please help us spread the word to graduate and professional students across campus, and join the UW ELISS google group to participate in an online exchange with other student leaders at UW who are eager to change the world eliss-uw(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:eliss-uw@googlegroups.com>. If you have any questions, please email us at UW(a)elissfellows.org<mailto:UW@elissfellows.org>. See our website for more information: www.aaas.org/eliss<http://www.aaas.org/eliss>. If you are not eligible to apply for ELISS, but would like to contribute to the program, please fill out this volunteer interest surveyhttp://bit.ly/ZD8Ukz. Sincerely, Jaclyn Saunders, Nisha Randhava, and Stephanie Cruz ELISS Liaisons to UW Like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/EmergingLeadersInScienceSociety<http://www.facebook.com/EmergingLeadersInScienceSociety>

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[ACM DEV-4] Call for Papers: 4th Symposium on Computing for Development
by Gaetano Borriello 20 May '13

20 May '13

ACM DEV-4 4th Symposium on Computing for Development Co-located with ICTD December 6-7, 2013 Cape Town, South Africa http://dev4.acmdev.org/ Important Dates: Thursday July 18: Full paper deadline (11:59pm UTC) firm deadline. Friday Sept 13: Notification of authors Friday Nov 1: Camera-ready papers due. Dec 6-7: Conference. DEV-4 provides an international forum for research in the design and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social and economic development. In particular, we focus on emerging contexts where conventional computing solutions are often inappropriate due to various contextual factors - including, but not limited to, cost, language, literacy, and the availability of power and bandwidth. Papers should describe original and previously unpublished research. Three metrics will be applied to judge papers: (a) Relevance of the problem for development; (b) Novelty of the technical solution; (c) Evaluation of the solution, making a case for development-focused impact. All DEV paper submissions should either provide or directly motivate a novel technical solution that has direct implications for development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networks/Systems/Security/Architecture Low-cost wireless connectivity Intermittent networks and systems Power-efficient systems Low-cost computing devices Mobile systems and applications Mixed networks, e.g., telephony and IP Special-purpose sensor systems Security challenges in developing regions HCI/Applications User interfaces for low-literacy populations Multi-lingual computing User-interfaces for low-cost devices Participatory methods and user-centered design Accessibility to disabled populations in developing regions Design and evaluation of applications for health, microfinance, education, agriculture, entertainment AI/NLP/Data Mining/Speech/Vision Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in development contexts Adapting content and applications to local languages and education levels Understanding social relationships and information flows in disadvantaged societies Speech interfaces and speech recognition for low-resource languages Development of new AI-centric tools/solutions for development Computer vision challenges in development We also welcome papers outside of these topics that address the DEV focus on computing innovations supporting social and economic development. For more information, see the webpage (http://dev4.acmdev.org/) or contact the Program Co-Chairs (Margaret Martonosi, Princeton and Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay).

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Dr Thomas Odeny: Text messaging to improve attendance at post-operative clinic visits and reduce early resumption of sex after adult male circumcision for HIV prevention.
by Nicola Dell 20 May '13

20 May '13

What: Dr Thomas Odeny: Text messaging to improve attendance at post-operative clinic visits and reduce early resumption of sex after adult male circumcision for HIV prevention. When: Tuesday, May 21st at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 Over the last four years there has been significant discussion, both domestically and internationally, about the WHO and UNAIDS recommendation to circumcise men for HIV prevention. Several countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa have been scaling up programs that provide voluntary male circumcision, with Kenya leading in the greatest number of procedures performed. While Kenya has been successful at facilitating the operations, the greatest challenge has been in follow-up of men after surgery to monitor wound healing, facilitating early detection and treatment of adverse events, and to reinforce post-operative care instructions including risk-reduction counseling and promotion of delayed resumption of sex. Unfortunately, many men fail to return for scheduled post-operative visits. The rapid increase in mobile phone connections in Kenya presents an affordable, low-cost, and potentially effective avenue to improve attendance at post-operative clinic visits and promote delayed resumption of sex. Dr Thomas Odeny is currently a Post-Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in the Department of Global Health, where he is learning new and innovative tools for research in the field of health metrics. He is also a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology advised by Drs Scott McClelland, Elizabeth Bukusi, and King Holmes. Previously, he was a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow in Kisumu, Kenya, where he was PI for a study aimed at leveraging mobile technology to address the global health challenge of HIV prevention and care among women and children entitled, “Improving uptake of early infant diagnosis of HIV for PMTCT: a randomized trial of a text messaging intervention.” He received the Outstanding Student Award in Epidemiology (MPH) in 2012. For his MPH thesis, he conducted a 1,200-person randomized trial on text messaging to improve outcomes after adult male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya. This study won him a nomination for the Top 11 in 2011 mHealth Innovators Challenge by the mHealth Alliance and Rockefeller Foundation, and a Young Investigator Award at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. He remains committed to long-term service in both HIV programs and research in Kenya. Having come face-to-face with the magnitude of health disparities in Kenya, his passion is to become a more capable global health researcher working to reduce new HIV infections and finding more effective ways of providing and sustaining care in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Stanford "Design for Extreme Affordability" course
by Gaetano Borriello 18 May '13

18 May '13

http://extreme.stanford.edu/ Today on CNN at 2:30 PDT.

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PartoPen Recruiting
by Nicola Dell 17 May '13

17 May '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kurtis Heimerl Date: Friday, May 17, 2013 Subject: [TIER] PartoPen Recruiting To: tier <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Interdisciplinary research group seeks a masters-level computer science (CS) student or advanced CS undergraduate for summer employment! Write custom software for an innovative digital pen hardware platform, advance existing handwriting recognition algorithms, and impact healthcare delivery in developing countries. Paid full-time summer position at the University of Colorado Boulder (but telecommuting may be considered for the right candidate); must have Java programming skills and familiarity using Eclipse IDE; knowledge of Perl and HTTP scripting preferable. Applicants with a deep understanding of printing specifications and printer software/firmware are also strongly encouraged to apply. Longer term employment possible for highly-qualified individuals. To learn more about the project, visit www.partopen.com. To apply, send email to heather.underwood(a)colorado.edu with resume, CV, and/or github repository/code samples.

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Fwd: SRC Grand Finals 2013-Awards Banquet
by Ed Lazowska 16 May '13

16 May '13

Local girl makes good ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Bennett <jkb.john(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM Subject: Fwd: SRC Grand Finals 2013-Awards Banquet To: lazowska(a)cs.washington.edu ** Fyi ------------------------------ *From:* Heather Underwood <hmunderwood(a)gmail.com> *Sent:* Thu May 16 10:28:58 MDT 2013 *To:* "John K. Bennett" <jkb(a)colorado.edu> *Subject:* Fwd: SRC Grand Finals 2013-Awards Banquet ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nanette Hernandez <hernandez(a)hq.acm.org> Date: Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:46 AM Subject: SRC Grand Finals 2013-Awards Banquet To: "heather.underwood(a)colorado.edu" <heather.underwood(a)colorado.edu> Cc: "lawilli3(a)ncsu.edu" <lawilli3(a)ncsu.edu> Dear Heather, **** ** ** I am pleased to inform that you have been invited to the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Awards Banquet, where you will be recognized as the First Place Graduate winner in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals for 2013. **** ** ** The Awards Banquet will take place at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, California on Saturday, June 15, 2013 (6:00pm – 10:00pm).**** Please provide your advisor’s name and contact information as they will be invited to attend as well. **** You are responsible for arranging your travel; ACM will handle your hotel reservations. **** ACM will pay the expenses for award winners and their faculty advisors.**** Please use the expense report attached for reimbursement of SRC related expenses. **** Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions pertaining to the Student Research Competition Grand Finals or the Awards Banquet. **** With Kind Regards,**** Nanette Hernandez**** [image: Description: SRC signature logo]**** 2 Penn Plaza**** Suite 701**** New York, NY 10121**** Phone: 212-626-0501**** Fax: 212-944-1318**** E-mail: hernandez(a)hq.acm.org **** http://src.acm.org **** **** ** ** -- *Heather Underwood* PhD Candidate, ATLAS Institute University of Colorado Boulder *"Enthusiasm without knowledge is like running in the dark"*

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This Friday: Jon Udell on teaching web fluency
by Cortney Leach 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hello! Microsoft's Jon Udell will be giving a talk at the iSchool this Friday, May 17th on how we can help web users become web thinkers and web makers. It should be a fantastic talk and we hope you can join! Who: Jon Udell, Microsoft What: Teaching Web Fluency: How we can help web users become web thinkers and web makers? When: Friday, May 17th, Noon to 1:20 p.m. Pizza provided! Where: MGH 420 Abstract: Students of computer and information sciences aren't the only ones who need to understand how web resources are represented, named, provided, composed, and exchanged. Everyone can learn a set of basic principles and then apply them to be more effective participants in (and co-creators of) the web. Microsoft's Jon Udell is teaching communities how to manage their public calendars in a way that enables groups and organization to be authoritative for their own calendar data, and to connect their calendars in syndication networks using the well-established (but underutilized) Internet standard for calendar exchange. In this talk he'll review the progress he's made so far helping cities and towns around the country adopt this model, discuss the web concepts required, and explore the challenges involved in conveying those concepts. He'll also suggest how lessons learned from community calendar syndication can generalize to other domains, including health care, energy conservation, and political discourse. About Jon Udell Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator. His 1999 book, Practical Internet Groupware<http://safari.oreilly.com/1565925378>, helped lay the foundation for what we now call social software. Udell was formerly a software developer at Lotus, BYTE Magazine's executive editor and Web maven, and an independent consultant. A hands-on thinker, Udell's analysis of industry trends has always been informed by his own ongoing experiments with software, information architecture, and new media. From 2002 to 2006 he was InfoWorld's lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief<http://jonudell.net/udell/2002-2006-index.html>. During his InfoWorld tenure he also pioneered the medium now known as screencasting and produced an audio show, Interviews with Innovators<http://www.itconversations.com/series/innovators.html>. In 2007 Udell joined Microsoft as a writer, interviewer, speaker, and experimental software developer. Currently he is building and explaining<http://blog.jonudell.net/why-and-how/> a calendar network<http://elmcity.cloudapp.net> that's based on open standards and runs in the Windows Azure cloud. Cortney Leach, MLIS, MPA Research Development Manager The Information School<http://ischool.uw.edu/> | University of Washington<http://www.washington.edu/> Office: 206.616.2063 | Mobile: 206.390.1929 cjohnso(a)uw.edu<mailto:cjohnso@uw.edu>

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Fwd: GIS Manager Job at eHealth Nigeria
by Yaw Anokwa 13 May '13

13 May '13

If you are looking for a project at scale and with lots of impact, this GIS Manager position at eHealth Nigeria sounds like it'd be a great opportunity... eHealth runs the biggest Open Data Kit (ODK) deployment I know about. They've deployed 8,000 phones are hoping to scale to 12,000. In their last campaign, they collected 5 million GIS tracks in 5 days. And if that isn't impressive enough for you, the results of their efforts were published at Nature.com: http://www.nature.com/news/public-health-polio-s-moving-target-1.12817. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Evelyn Castle <evelyn(a)ehealthnigeria.org> Date: Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:42 AM Subject: [ODK Community] GIS Manager Job opening To: opendatakit(a)googlegroups.com Dear all, We are currently looking for an experienced GIS Manager to come and join us in Nigeria. We have joined the fight to eradicate polio in Nigeria and are using maps to track vaccinators to ensure coverage in all locations. We would be very grateful if you can pass this information to possible candidates. Thanks Evelyn Job posting: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=5703867 -- Evelyn Castle Director, eHealth Nigeria www.eHealthNigeria.org 25 Race Course Road, Kano, Ng mobile: (NG) 0809-515-0585 (NG) 0813-883-2395 (US) 714-627-9289

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No Change seminar this week
by Nicola Dell 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi everyone, There will be no Change seminar this week. We will resume next week. Thanks Nicki

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Ann opportunity to meet an Indian education tech entrepreneur - next week
by Patrick Doherty 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hi all Manish Upadhyay - Co-founder, COO & Business Head -Tablets (for learning) at LIQVID - a global eLearning provider based in India is in Seattle next Wednesday. He will showcase their award winning portable tablets based language lab for colleges and schools. He is very keen to get some independent feedback on the product from students, entrepreneurs and teachers. If you are interested in meeting Manish it would be great to have you. Please respond by email. It's NEXT WEDNESDAY 15th May in the evening - Location and times to follow once we have numbers I've attached some materials and websites http://www.liqvid.com/index.htm http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3677792&locale=en_US&trk=tyah2 Thanks Patrick Doherty Masters of Communication In Digital Media University of Washington +12062458574 @pwdoherty www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdoherty

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