Hi all, 

I am happy to announce the First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2010). ACM DEV 2010 will be co-located with ICTD 2010 and the focus of the symposium will be on new computing innovations for development. The scope of DEV 2010 is broad covering a wide range of research areas within computer science with a direct focus on development. ACM DEV 2010 aims to bring together all CS researchers with an interest in computing for development. The deadline for paper submissions is July 10th, 2010. I strongly encourage you to submit your best works here. 

The conference website is: 
http://dev2010.news.cs.nyu.edu 

Attached is the Call for Papers for ACM DEV 2010. Kindly help us also spread the word. Looking forward to a great conference and building a great community! 

Best regards, 
Tapan Parikh and Lakshmi Subramanian 
DEV 2010 PC co-chairs 


Call for Papers 

DEV 2010 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. Focusing on innovative technical solutions to these unique application, infrastructure and user challenges, DEV fosters exchange between computer scientists, engineers, and other scholars and practitioners interested in the use of ICTs for development. 

DEV provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing new ideas. We expect paper contributions from different existing sub-areas of Computer Science and Engineering with a direct relevance to development. 

Papers should describe original and previously unpublished research.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 ACM 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 
  * 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. 

Important Dates 
Registration Deadline     July 3, 2010 
Submission Deadline     July 10, 2010 
Paper Acceptance     September 5, 2010 
Final Version     October 5, 2010 
Conference     December 17-18, 2010 

General Chair    
Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University

PC Chairs   
Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU

Steering Committee  
Saman Amarasinghe, MIT 
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington 
Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley 
Deborah Estrin, UCLA 
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton 
Roni Rosenfeld, CMU 
Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley 

Program Committee
Muneeb Ali, Princeton, USA
Saman Amarasinghe, MIT, USA
Richard Anderson, Univ of Washington, USA
Ravin Balakrishnan, Univ of Toronto, Canada
Simone Barbosa, PUC - Rio, Brazil
Etienne Barnard, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Michael Best, Georgia Tech, USA
Gaetano Borriello, Univ of Washington, USA
Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley, USA
John Canny, UC Berkeley, USA
Ed Cutrell, MSR India, India
James Davis, UC Santa Cruz, USA
Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Nathan Eagle, MIT & Santa Fe Institute, USA
Deborah Estrin, UCLA, USA
Neil Ferguson, Imperial College, UK
Beki Grinter, Georgia Tech, USA
Eric Horovitz, MSR Redmond, USA
Ravi Jain, Google, USA
Matt Jones, Swansea, UK
Matthew Kam, CMU, USA
Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China 
Gary Marsden, Univ of Cape Town, South Africa
Vanessa Frias Martinez, Telefonica Research, Spain 
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton, USA
Srini Narayanan, UC Berkeley, USA
Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, USA
Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley, USA
Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford, USA
John Quinn, Makerere University, Uganda 
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research India, India
Bhaskaran Raman, IIT-Bombay, India
Roni Rosenfeld, CMU, USA
Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan
Lakshmi Subramanian, NYU, USA
Bill Thies, MSR India, India
Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley, USA
Terry Winograd, Stanford, USA