{"53733":{"#nid":"53733","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Kentaro Toyama Presents CS Distinguished Lecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKentaro Toyama: \u0022The commoditization of electronic hardware has brought PCs, mobile\nphones and other digital devices to some of the world\u0027s poorest\nenvironments. Local communities, however, invariably adapt technology\nto fit their unique constraints, and this is no less true for digital\ntechnology. One adaptation that is strikingly consistent is the sharing\nof technology.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In this talk, I\u0027ll highlight two interesting cases of technology\nsharing: The simultaneous sharing of PCs by students in schools,\naugmented by a technical aid to enhance sharing called MultiPoint; and\nintermediated use of mobile phones, in which beneficiaries of\ntechnology are not always the manipulators of the device. These cases\nwill also provide an entry point for discussing prevailing myths of\ntechnology for global development, which are commonly believed, but\nrarely true\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiography\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKentaro Toyama is spending a year at UC Berkeley\u2019s School of\nInformation to write a book on global development. From 2004 through\n2009, he was assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India,\nin Bangalore, where he founded the \u0022Technology for Emerging Markets\u0022\ngroup, which conducts multidisciplinary research to identify\napplications of computing and electronic technology for socio-economic\ndevelopment. Prior to his work in India, Kentaro did research in\ncomputer vision, multimedia, and digital graphics in Redmond and taught\nmathematics at Ashesi University in Ghana. Kentaro graduated with a\nPh.D. in computer science from Yale and a bachelor\u2019s in physics from\nHarvard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/people\/toyama\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKentaro Toyama\u0027s Profile\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReception will precede lecture, 2:30 PM in Klaus Atrium.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Microsoft\u0027s Kentaro Toyama presents \u0022Shared Use of Technology in the Developing World.\u0022","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Shared Use of Technology in the Developing World\u0022"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2010-02-17 11:11:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:50:42","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-02-17T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2010-02-17T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-02-17T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-02-17 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-02-17 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-02-17 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEddie Vail\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6711\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eevail@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}