Posts Tagged ‘Science’

Invisible Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

http://www.cellphone-health.com. The invisible dangers of EMF radiation — from cell phones, computers, wifi and other electronic devices.

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Usher: Enabling Quality Data Collection on Mobile Phones

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Usher: Enabling Quality Data Collection on Mobile Phones
Kuang Chen, Ph.D Student, EECS, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Recently, the Director General of the World Health Organization likened the lack of quality health information in low income countries to a “gathering storm”, saying, “to make people count, we first need to be able to count.” All over the world, the pervasiveness of cellular networks is enabling mobile-based data collection. Community health workers armed with commodity phones are starting to visit the most rural and isolated places to promote health and gather data in mobile forms. Among their challenges, data quality ranks high: a recent study found that mobile-based data quality was ten-times worse than dictation to a human operator. In this talk, we will present an overview of Usher, a system to address this challenge.

Usher automates form design, filling, and data quality urance for mobile phones and other non-traditional data entry settings. Rather than relying on domain experts, Usher learns a probabilistic model over form questions using existing form data. Usher then applies this model at every step of the data entry process to ensure high quality. Before entry, it induces a form layout that captures the most important data values of a form instance as quickly as possible. During entry, it dynamically adapts the form to the values being entered, and provides real-time feedback to guide the data enterer toward more likely values, and to avoid errors. After entry, it re-asks questions that it deems likely to have been entered incorrectly. We evaluated Usher using two real-world data sets. Results demonstrate that each component has the potential to improve data quality considerably, and at a reduced cost when compared to current practice.
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Beyond Market Prices: Improving the Productivity and Profitability of Small Farmers
Tapan Parikh, t Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Improving the productivity and profitability of smallholders farmers is the main pathway for economic development of many of the world’s poorer countries. It has been noted that improved access to timely and relevant knowledge and information could significantly improve the economic opportunities available to such farmers. However, most research to date has focused on providing and studying the impact of only one kind of information - market prices. While clearly important, this ignores many other kinds of information relevant to small farmers, especially when institutional, infrastructural and knowledge limitations reduce small farmers’ capacity to capitalize market information. In this talk, I describe two systems that address other information limitations faced by small farmers, and the institutions that serve them. The first system, Avaaj Otalo, allows small farmers in Gujarat, India to access timely and relevant agricultural advice via a voice-based service accessed via a conventional phone line. In the first three months of a pilot evaluation, with access provided to fifty incoming phone numbers, the system has received an average of 3500 calls per month. The second system, Digital ICS, allows an organic, fair trade coffee cooperative in Oaxaca, Mexico to monitor quality and certification requirements for each of its members, and to be more responsive to the issues they face. Field inspectors document growing condictions, and capture the questions and comments of farmers using a mobile phone-based data collection application. In a six-month trial deployment, the system has significantly reduced data collection and processing time, demonstrating the potential to save the cooperative approximately $10,000 a year in labor costs, while providing the cooperative with richer data about its members as an added benefit.

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Mobile Century: Using Cell Phones as Mobile Traffic Sensors

Friday, May 15th, 2009

UC Berkeley and Nokia researchers used GPS-enabled cell phones to test a technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through traffic. In the unprecedented Cal-trans funded field experiment, transportation researchers used GPS-enabled mobile phones to monitor real-time traffic flow while preserving the privacy of the phones’ users.

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One of the FIRST WINDOWS LAPTOP computers is demonstrated.

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

The First WINDOWS Laptops were the beginnings of today’s and quite interesting to look back on. This Zenith of mine was amazing to all who saw it 1n 1994! Look how far we have come in only 15 years! Thanks for watching, and you might like to pass it on to your old computer buddies. Please subscribe if you like. Thanks. Dave

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Mobile phones and banks, banking transactions future trends

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

http://www.globalchange.com Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. Economic impact of remittances from foreign workers using SMS credit to avoid foreign exchange transaction costs. How biometrics fingerprint technology will allow large mobile phone payments. Commissions and interest charges on loans. Impact of revenues from American Express, Visa, Delta, Access, Mastercard moving to mobile phone transactions. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.

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Geek Pad: iPhone Apps Battle - Comedy.com

Friday, February 20th, 2009

In this episode of Geek Pad, Sam Riegel and Rob Blatt rank the best of the iPhone far apps, write an unsolicited jingle for TinyURL.com, and remind you to check out their blog at http://www.geekpadshow.com — Geek Pad is a Comedy.com original series.

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Give One Get One

Friday, February 6th, 2009

http://laptop.org/g1g1

Masi Oka speaks on behalf of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation about the Give One Get One opportunity.

Again in 2008, One Laptop Per Child is offering a Give One Get One Program for a brief window of time in North America. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.

For more information, please visit http://laptop.org/g1g1

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Samsung P2-P2 MP3 Player Review

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

My video review of the samsung yp-p2 mp3 player. It has 4gb of flash memory and a great touchscreen. If you have any questions please ask

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Free Adeona service tracks stolen laptops

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

First free laptop theft protection tool created and released by computer scientists at UC San Diego and the University of Washington.

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