Thanks Tom :) http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/lawler-award-07
Old news, but it's a new press release, whose title has now been properly changed to: "Lawler Award Goes to Digital Study Hall Team." :) On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Tom Anderson <tom at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Old news to many of you, but in case not. > > ----------- > > * ACM Honors Randy Wang and Digital Study Hall Team for Using > Community-Generated Video to Improve Education in India > > ACM Honors Randy Wang and Digital Study Hall Team for Using > Community-Generated Video to Improve Education in India > AScribe Newswire (06/10/08) > > Randy Wang and the Digital Study Hall (DSH) team have won ACM's Eugene L. > Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and > Informatics. Wang and Urvashi Sahni of the Study Hall Foundation founded DSH > in 2005, and the project has developed a user-generated video-sharing system > that local teachers in South Asia use to improve learning in their > classrooms. The cost-effective digital technology allows schools and > non-governmental organizations to make videos of the best teachers and to > share them with teachers in underserved areas. Wang, currently with Microsoft > Research India, describes DSH as "a bit like YouTube meets Netflix in a rural > schoolhouse with a dirt floor." DSH currently has 30 pilot schools in five > cities in India and Bangladesh. ACM will honor Wang and the DSH team at its > annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 21 in San Francisco. > Click Here to View Full Article > <http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20080610.074304&tim > e=08%2016%20PDT&year=2008&public=0> > to the top > > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at cs.washington.edu > https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change >
