Prof' Alex Sandy Pentland

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Global Partnerships

• Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland
• Founding Director
• Media Lab Asia
• MIT Media Laboratory

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The OpportunityThe next generation of new
technologies

• .will be shaped by the needs
• of six billion people

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Developing Nations Opportunity

• New products for the billions entering the world
  markets
• Leadership in these new, emerging IT and biotech
  industries
• Making IT for the Masses a reality

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Digital Nations India (Government of
India) Mexico (TelMex) Brazil (Banco
Bradesco) Central American States (INCAE) Panama
(Government of Panama) (Honduras, Bolivia,
Columbia) USA (NSF) Denmark (Government of
Denmark) Ireland (Government of Ireland)
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The Media Lab Asia

• What A network of national laboratories
  dedicated to bringing the benefits of emerging
  technologies to the masses
• Goal Enable US1B investment in innovative
  rural infrastructure and services leveraging
  200M Government of India seed funding
• Founder / Director Alex (Sandy) Pentland

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Research Area 1 BITS FOR ALL
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TOMORROWS TOOLS
OLS
DIGITAL VILLAGE
WORLD COMPUTER
BITS FOR ALL
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Ad Hoc Wi-Fi NetworksHuman-Scale Paintable
Computers
Mobile wireless network for rural communities
that provides information and communication
services to an entire community
(M.L. Best, L. Burnes, M. Escobedo H. Shakeel,
forthcoming)
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Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Internet at 0.01/user
www.media.mit.edu/amir/daknet
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Area 2 TOMMORROWS TOOLS
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TOMORROWS TOOLS
OLS
DIGITAL VILLAGE
WORLD COMPUTER
BITS FOR ALL
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50 UV-VIS spectrometer for measuring
contaminents
50 complex RF impedance analyzer for
assaying material composition
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BIOSENSOR DESIGN
OPTICAL SENSING USING A POROUS SILICON
MICROCAVITY DESIGN
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ? CENTER FOR FUTURE HEALTH
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Area 3 WORLD COMPUTER
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TOMORROWS TOOLS
OLS
DIGITAL VILLAGE
WORLD COMPUTER
BITS FOR ALL
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Nanotectics
Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph
Jacobson, All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors
Fabricated by Printing, Science (286) 746, 1999
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Research Area 4 DIGITAL VILLAGE
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TOMORROWS TOOLS
OLS
DIGITAL VILLAGE
WORLD COMPUTER
BITS FOR ALL
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LINCOS Village Centers www.lincos.net
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More Information

• http//www.medialabasia.org
• http//www.media.mit.edu/dn
• http//www.media.mit.edu/pentland

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Baatchit Village Centers www.jiva.org/outreach/baa
tchit
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Computer Clubhouses www.computerclubhouse.org