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2008-2009 TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series
TECHBRIDGEWORLD INTERACTIVE
Annual event featuring TechBridgeWorld projects around the globe.
Thursday, December 4, 2008, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Newell-Simon Hall Perlis Atrium
TechBridgeWorld Trip to Tanzania and Zambia and the New iSTEP Internship for Students
Photo slideshow and stories presented by staff members Freddie Dias and Sarah Belousov
Will include an Information Session on the new iSTEP internship program
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Location to be confirmed
Pizza and drinks will be served
Fall 2008 Presentation of V-Unit Projects
Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Newell-Simon Hall 1507
Pizza and drinks will be served.
V-Unit Faculty Coordinator Manuela Veloso will provide an introduction
to the V-Unit program and potential project ideas.
"English-Karen Translation System for Karen Refugees in Pittsburgh"
ThuyLinh Nguyen, Ph.D. Student
Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon
University
"Fast Food Image Database Collection and Recognition for Obesity Research"
Wen Wu, Ph.D. Student
Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon
University
"A Smart Optical Character Recognition for Inupiaq"
Shinjae Yoo, Ph.D. Student
Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon
University
Update on TIER Research Group, UC Berkeley
Presentation by Matthew Kam, member of the TIER research group as a Ph.D. Student
Assistant Professor, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univerity
(starting January 2009)
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Newell-Simon Hall 1507
Refreshments will be served.
Kidszone Activity Fair
Includes activity tables with TechBridgeWorld Students and Staff Members
As a part of Carnegie Mellon's 2008 Homecoming Weekend
Making an Impact in Developing Communities through Carnegie Mellon's TechBridgeWorld
Panel Presentation by students G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, Kaleem Rahman, Saurabh Sanghvi
and staff member Ermine Teves
As a part of Carnegie Mellon's 2008 Homecoming Weekend
Lessons Learned from TechBridgeWorld Field Work in Zambia
Presentation by staff members Freddie Dias and Sarah Belousov
As a part of the Field Robotics Center Seminar series
Educational Technology Projects in Developing Communities through TechBridgeWorld:
Challenges and Opportunities
Panel Presentation by students Kaleem Rahman and Saurabh Sanghvi
and staff member Sarah Belousov
As a part of Carnegie Mellon's 2008 International Festival
What Does It Take to Start a University of Your Own:
The Story of the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh
Presentation by Kamal Ahmad, President and CEO, Asian University for Women Support Foundation
Joint Seminar from TechBridgeWorld and Women@SCS
2007-2008 TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series
Extending the Capabilities of the Internet to the Rural Developing World
Presentation by Bill Thies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TECHBRIDGEWORLD INTERACTIVE
Annual event featuring TechBridgeWorld projects around the globe.
Poverty Simulation
A Special Event as a part of Carnegie Mellon's 2007 International Festival
Hosted by TechBridgeWorld in collaboration with Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners (PSVP)
and Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE)
Fall 2007 Presentation of V-Unit Project
A Dual-Use Speech CAPTCHA: Aiding Visually Impaired Web Users
while Providing Transcriptions of Online Audio Sources
Andy Schlaikjer, Ph.D. Student. Language Technologies Institute
Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
2006-2007 TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series
Presentation of Summer IFYRE Research with Adaptive Braille Writing Tutor
Daniel Dewey, Undergraduate Student and IFYRE Recipient
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Tom Stepleton, Ph.D. Student, Robotics Institute
Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Spring 2007 Presentation of V-Unit Projects
"DeSIGN: An Intelligent Tutor for American Sign Language"
Vinithra Varadharajan, Masters Student and Ling Xu, Ph.D. Student
Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon
University
"BlindAid: Navigational Assistance for the Visually Impaired"
Sandra Mau, Masters Student, Maxim Makatchev, Ph.D. Student, and Nik Melchior, Ph.D. Student
Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Poverty Simulation
A Special Event Sponsored by Carnegie Mellon's Office of the Vice Provost for Education
Hosted by TechBridgeWorld in collaboration with Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners
and the Heinz School’s Institute for Social Innovation
Special Joint Seminar with the Field Robotics Center
Sustainable Technology for Disaster Response
Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Ph.D., Faculty Member, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Intelligent Field Robotics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Commissioner (Chairman) of the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission
Special Joint Seminar with the Robotics Institute and Field Robotics Center
A Braille Writing Tutor to Combat Illiteracy in Developing Communities
Nidhi Kalra and Tom Lauwers, Ph.D. Students, Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon
University
Special Joint Seminar with the Robotics Institute and Field Robotics Center
Teaching Technical Creativity through Robotics in Ghana
G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, Ph.D. Student, Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon
University
Information Session on the Technology Consulting in the Global Community Program (TCinGC)
Joseph S. Mertz, TCinGC Program Director, TechBridgeWorld Associate Director and Associate Teaching Professor, School of Computer Science and H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University along with several Summer 2006 TCinGC Student Participants
2005-2006 TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series
Presentation of Spring 2006 Group
V-Unit Project entitled “Project HATCH: Helping Advance Technology,
Communication, and Health in Haiti"
Mindy Lauck, Project Manager, Joe
Dupelle, Alexis Lozada, Pete Noll, and Benjamin
Todd, Master of Science in Public Policy and Management Students,
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon
University
Presentation of
Fall 2005 Group V-Unit Project “Virtual Community in Health Care:
Prospects in Peru” Ma.
Esmeralda Silva, Project Manager, Christina
Dinwoodie, Mustafa Khan, and Ruth C. Salcedo,
Master of Science in Public Policy and Management Students, H. John Heinz
III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Panel Discussion “Cultural
Intelligence: A Key Factor for an Effective International Development
Career”
Moderator: Joe Mertz, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University
and Panelists: Dorina Bekoe, U.S. Institute
of Peace; Marco Delgado, Delgado & Associates;
Juli Majernik, U.S. Department of Agriculture; and James
Pawela, Parsons Corporation
Presentation of Summer
2005 V-Unit Projects
“Investigating the Impact
of an Automated Reading Tutor in Ghana” Ayorkor
Mills-Tettey, Ph.D. Student, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University
“Physical Interfaces for Semiliterate
Users” Aditya Chand, M.S. Student,
Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
“Detecting Bilingual Medical
Term Translations via Web Mining” Fei Huang,
Ph.D. Student, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
“Developing a Quechua to Spanish
Translation System” Ariadna Font Llitjós,
Ph.D. Student, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
2004-2005 TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series
Meeting Arab Socio-Economic Development
Needs Through Information and Communications Technologies
Professor Fouad Mrad, American University of
Beirut, Lebanon
CITRIS - The Center for Information
Technology Research in the Interest of Society: Accomplishments, New Opportunities
and Challenges
Professor Ruzena Bajcsy, Director CITRIS;
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Lesson from the Field: Some Do's and
Don'ts of Development Projects
Dr. Kathleen C. Anderson
Internet Booths in Indian Villages:
A Peep Hole to the World
Dr. K. Sundari, Chair, Sociology Stella Maris
College (Autonomous) of the University of Madras, Chennai, India
Appropriate Technology in Haiti: The
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Story
Ian G. Rawson, PhD, CHE
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