The first Change seminar for the fall quarter will be on* Tuesday, September 25th at 12 noon in CSE 203*. Richard Anderson from UW Computer Science and Engineering will be speaking on "From Digital StudyHall to Digital PublicHealth". The Digital StudyHall (DSH) project began in 2005 with the goal of improving primary school education in rural India using Tutored Video Instruction where lessons recorded by experienced teachers were shown in remote schools by less experienced teachers. Part of the vision was to create “DStar”, a collection of projects that would use the principles of DSH: low cost community created video content, a shared public archive, and human mediated delivery of videos, to conduct education in a wide range of domains. Digital Green (DG) for agriculture education was the first spin off project from DSH which now has a large reach in India. In this talk, I will describe how the ideas and technologies developed by DSH and DG are being applied in a new project, Digital PublicHealth (DPH), which is using community created video content for maternal health messaging in Uttar Pradesh, India. Richard Anderson is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985. In 1986 he joined the University of Washington after a one-year Postdoc at the Mathematical Science Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has held visiting positions with the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India and with the Learning Sciences and Technology group at Microsoft Research. For the last three years he has been collaborating with PATH, a Seattle based public health NGO, applying computing technology to a range of problems in global health. What: Richard Anderson: From Digital StudyHall to Digital PublicHealth When: Tuesday, September 25 at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, room CSE 203