Technology for Emerging Markets

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Low-Cost Aerial Imaging for Small Holder Farmers

Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Akshit Kumar, Rohit Patil, Aditya Jain, Zerina Kapetanovic, Rahul Sharma, Deepak Vasisht, Ranveer Chandra, Swami Manohar, Anirudh Badam, Gireeja Ranade, Sudipta Sinha, Akshay Nambi

ACM Compass 2019 | July 2019

ACM COMPASS 2019 Best Paper Award

Project Project

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Dara: A Chatbot to Help Indian Artists and Designers Discover International Opportunities

Archana Prasad, Sean Blagsvedt, Tej Pochiraju, Indrani Medhi Thies

ACM Creativity & Cognition | June 2019

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Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Navigation

Xin Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Dinghan Shen, Yuan-Fang Weng, William Yang Wang, Lei Zhang

CVPR 2019 | June 2019

Best Student Paper Award in CVPR 2019.

Video Project Project Project

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Rethinking Financial Inclusion: From Access to Autonomy

Srihari Hulikal Muralidhar, Claus Bossen, Jacki O'Neill

Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work | June 2019, Vol 28(3-4): pp. 511-547

David B. Martin Best Paper Award at European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2019

Project

Video

Thirteen Tech Ideas for a Better India

May 16, 2019 | Roshan Shankar

In this talk, Roshan will share his experiences in Indian democracy through the lens of politics, policy, governance, economy, media, digital media, sustainability, judiciary, elections, government institutions, non-profits, academia, journalism, and civil society. He will…

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Exploring Crowdsourced Work in Low-Resource Settings

Manu Chopra, Indrani Medhi Thies, Joyojeet Pal, Colin Scott, Bill Thies, Vivek Seshadri

2019 Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2019

Project Project

Video

Towards Realizing the Internet-of-Things Vision: In-body, Homes, Cities, and Farms

April 22, 2019 | Deepak Vasisht

The Internet-of-things (IoT) enables us to connect our physical and digital worlds by embedding computing devices into the environment. Today, there is a huge interest in IoT systems for smart homes, smart cities, digital healthcare,…

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Incrementally-deployable Indoor Navigation with Automatic Trace Generation

Yuanchao Shu, Zhuqi Li, Börje F. Karlsson, Yiyong Lin, Thomas Moscibroda, Kang Shin

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) | April 2019

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Talking about Chat at Work in the Global South: An Ethnographic Study of Chat Use in India and Kenya

Moira McGregor, Nicola J Bidwell, Vidya Sarangapani, Jonathan Appavoo, Jacki O'Neill (jaoneil)

Computer-Human Interaction | March 2019

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Using AI in the Industry, Sprucing up the Academia

January 24, 2019 | Varun Aggarwal

In this talk, I will discuss how we have used AI over the last 7 years to build tools for grading skills and providing feedback. I will discuss examples of grading programs, video interviews and…

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Kahani: Visual Storytelling

Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content

Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali

Keynote: Building Globally Equitable AI

Low-Cost Aerial Imaging for Small Holder Farmers

Dara: A Chatbot to Help Indian Artists and Designers Discover International Opportunities

Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Navigation

Rethinking Financial Inclusion: From Access to Autonomy

Thirteen Tech Ideas for a Better India

Exploring Crowdsourced Work in Low-Resource Settings

Towards Realizing the Internet-of-Things Vision: In-body, Homes, Cities, and Farms

Incrementally-deployable Indoor Navigation with Automatic Trace Generation

Talking about Chat at Work in the Global South: An Ethnographic Study of Chat Use in India and Kenya

Using AI in the Industry, Sprucing up the Academia

Technology for Emerging Markets

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