[Reader-list] Reminder for DEV 2013 submissions

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

Hello,      
      
      The DEV deadline is hardly three weeks away now! We are looking      forward to a good set of papers this year as well. We also plan to      have an expanded poster session for large vision and in progress      projects, so do consider submitting early work too in a 2-page      abstract.      
      
      We also have two fantastic keynote speakers this year:      
      - Tarun Vij, Country Program Leader for PATH India      
      - Brij Kothari, Inventor of Same Language Subtitling and Professor      at IIM Ahmedabad India      
      
      Looking forward to your participation...      
      
      sincerely      
      Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi      
      Richard Anderson, University of Washington      
      
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      ACM DEV 2013      
      3rd Symposium on Computing for Development      
      Co-located with COMSNETS      
      January 11-12, 2013      
      Bangalore, India      
      http://dev2013.org/      
      
      Important Dates:      
      
      Submissions due: September 7, 2012 (11:59pm UTC) - firm deadline      
      Author notification: October 26, 2012      
      Camera-ready: December 7, 2012      
      Conference: January 11-12, 2013      
      
      DEV 2013 provides an international forum for research in the      design and implementation of information and communication      technologies (ICTs) for social and economic development. In      particular, we focus on emerging contexts where conventional      computing solutions are often inappropriate due to various      contextual factors - including, but not limited to, cost,      language, literacy, and the availability of power and bandwidth.      
      
      Papers should describe original and previously unpublished      research. Three metrics will be applied to judge papers: (a)      Relevance of the problem for development; (b) Novelty of the      technical solution; (c) Evaluation of the solution, making a case      for development-focused impact. All DEV paper submissions should      either provide or directly motivate a novel technical solution      that has direct implications for development. Topics of interest      include, but are not limited to:      
      
      Networks/Systems/Security/Architecture      
      
          Low-cost wireless connectivity      
          Intermittent networks and systems      
          Power-efficient systems      
          Low-cost computing devices      
          Mobile systems and applications      
          Mixed networks, e.g., telephony and IP      
          Special-purpose sensor systems      
          Security challenges in developing regions      
      
      HCI/Applications      
      
          User interfaces for low-literacy populations      
          Multi-lingual computing      
          User-interfaces for low-cost devices      
          Participatory methods and user-centered design      
          Accessibility to disabled populations in developing regions      
          Design and evaluation of applications for health,      microfinance, education, agriculture, entertainment      
      
      AI/NLP/Data Mining/Speech/Vision      
      
          Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in      development contexts      
          Adapting content and applications to local languages and      education levels      
          Understanding social relationships and information flows in      disadvantaged societies      
          Speech interfaces and speech recognition for low-resource      languages      
          Development of new AI-centric tools/solutions for development      
          Computer vision challenges in development      
      
      We also welcome papers outside of these topics that address the      DEV focus on computing innovations supporting social and economic      development.      
      
      Conference co-chairs:      
      Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India <thies at microsoft.com>      
      Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Labs <namit at in.ibm.com>      
      
      PC co-chairs:      
      Richard Anderson, University of Washington <anderson at cs.washington.edu>      
      Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi <aseth at cse.iitd.ernet.in>      
      
      Program committee (confirmed so far):      
      Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi      
      Amarjeet Singh, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology      Delhi      
      Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Labs      
      Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University      
      Anirudh Joshi, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay      
      Bhaskaran Raman, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay      
      Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India      
      Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington      
      Elizabeth Belding, UC Santa Barbara      
      Emma Brunskill, Carnegie Mellon University      
      Etienne Barnard, University of Pretoria      
      Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington      
      James Davis, UC Santa Cruz      
      Jana Iyengar, Franklin and Marshall College      
      Jay Chen, New York University      
      John Bennett, University of Colorado Boulder      
      John Quinn, Makerere University      
      Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley      
      Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University      
      Neal Lesh, Dimagi      
      Neil Patel, Awaaz De      
      Niloy Ganguli, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur      
      Richard Anderson, University of Washington      
      Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University      
      Saurabh Panjwani, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs India      
      Sharad Jaiswal, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs India      
      Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo      
      Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley      
      Vanessa Frias Martinez, Telefonica Research