Surf Roots, Software Thoughts

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Computing for the Developing World

February 08th, 2008 | Category: Projects, School | Comment Feed

The University of Washington CSE department is offering yet another awesome class that I pounced on thanks to the recommendation by two friends, Jim and Sierra. First they offered a joint class with Google on distributed computing, including topics and projects on Hadoop, MapReduce, GFS, etc. Now I’m taking a class focussed on computing for developing parts of the world. This quarter is focussed on defining a problem and a mechanism for fixing it. Next quarter is focussed on solving that problem by making whatever devices, services, and products necessary for success.

I took this class in direct response to this former post of mine, because now I get a chance to work on a project that might actually help someone who truly needs help.  I’ll describe our project later once we have our heads wrapped around it more.

6 Comments so far

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    [...] currently in a class for computer science in developing nations. Each team in the class had an opportunity to pitch their idea to a panel of four very experienced [...]

  2. Huckleberry Hart February 11th, 2008 1:56 pm

    Your group should focus on getting me a macbook pro…

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    [...] More on awesome UW CSE classes. [...]

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    [...] such as JQuery and Scriptaculous.  I’m going to make a valiant effort to do so in my developing nations project, which we’re implementing with Ruby on [...]

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