MSR India Lectures

Talk Title Presenter Date Tags
Announcing Warana Unwired and the MSRIndia SMS Toolkit (6 MB) Sean Blagsvedt, Rajesh Veeraraghavan and Vibhore Goyal February 28, 2007
Rajesh, Sean and Vibhore presented their recent work at the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference in San Franciso. We share the results of our ongoing collaboration with the Warana Sugarcane Coopertive to enable farmers to transact via SMS. Additionally, we are very excited to annouce the broad availability of our SMS Server Toolkit, allowing anyone with a Windows Mobile 5 phone and a PC to build an SMS Server with just a few lines of code or even just Excel.
What's Web 2.0 Got to do with Poor Folks? Technology for Economic Development Sean Blagsvedt, Microsoft Research India August 26, 2006
Sean's Foocamp06 talk, covering some of the motivation for our work in Emerging Markets and some brainstorming on ways that the web community can help this area.
You Look Good To Me: User Centered Design from a Social Perspective Sean Blagsvedt, Microsoft Research India August 16, 2006
We hosted the Bangalore SIGCHI meeting recently and it was great fun. Here's Sean's talk on how to leverage social motivations to make software popular!
Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition: A Survey & State of the Art Dr. V. Ram, Siemens CT-India & Dr. Amitav Das, Microsoft Research India May 14, 2006 Speaker recognition
Tutorial presented on May 14, 2006 in ICASSP-06 conference in Toulouse, France.  
System support for sensor-based distributed computing Kishore Ramachandran, Georgia Tech April 6, 2006 Sensors
An overview of Georgia Tech's sensor efforts.  
SMS Servers in Rural Agriculture Sean Blagsvedt, MSRIndia April 4, 2006 TEM, SMS, mobile, agriculture
Sean's PPT deck to the Mobile Developer Conference in Bangalore on our work using SMS servers to provide data access to farmers for a sugercane cooperative outside Pune, India.  
Technology in Education Richard Anderson, University of Washington March 28, 2006 TEM, education
Prof Anderson presents his work using Tablet PCs in lecture scenarios.  
   
   

 

 

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