sorry for the short notice, but rohit is not feeling well and has had to cancel the talk.
we will still be meeting, so bring your lunch, and we'll have a discussion about all the exciting things change might be up to next quarter. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 19:59, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at gmail.com> wrote: > This Thursday at Change, UW grad student Rohit Chaudhri will > presenting his work on A Programmable Accessory for Cell Phones. > > Rohit says, ?Low-tier cell phones like the Nokia 1100, 1200, 2600 etc, > are commonly used by individuals from low-income groups in developing > regions. While these phones are cheap and affordable (within the > $20-$30 range), they do not have a programmable runtime environment > like Android, J2ME, Symbian, Windows Mobile etc, as is available on > mid to high tier mobile phones. Hence mobile application developers > are unable to create applications for these phones. This restricts the > services that can be delivered to users of such phones. In this talk I > will present an approach to extend the capabilities of low-tier cell > phones. This uses a microcontroller-based accessory connected to the > phone to achieve the goal. The idea is to use the cell phone for IO > and communications, while application specific computation is > offloaded to the microcontroller. I will present the high-level > architecture of the system and then discuss implementation and > platform capabilities. I will show a location aware application based > on this platform. Towards the end I will discuss other possible > applications. If folks have ideas about how this platform can be used > for ICTD research, it would be great to discuss those during the talk. > > I built this platform during my recent internship at MSR India in > Bangalore. In prototype scale production, a completely assembled unit > costs around $15. A tech report about this work is available at: > http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=117754. > > If time permits I will mention about other fun projects I was involved > in during this awesome internship!? > > What: Rohit Chaudhri on A Programmable Accessory for Cell Phones > When: Thursday, February 4 at Noon > Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 203 >
