News
- I was awarded the CIO IDG
Technology Pioneer Award . The
inaugural CIO awards were given to those who helped shape the Pakistan
software industry in the last 10 years. Given that I was still an
undergrad 10 years ago, I am humbled by the recognition of our recent
entrepreneurial activities (BumpIn.com,
ChOpaal.pk
and SeeNreport.com
)
- My
dream startup incubator is finally online in Lahore! My three
startups -- BumpIn.com,
ChOpaal.pk
and SeeNreport.com
-- become the first citizens of
S.C.I.
- Our
research on
Goal-oriented
adaptive systems received the Mark Weiser Award at
IEEE
Percom'08. Watch videos of our two goal-oriented systems: Goal-oriented
Sockets [Follow-Me-Video]
and Goal-oriented Programming System
[Adaptive
Teleconference].
- Our
Poor Man's broadband
system
for the developing-world was featured in the New
Scientist and the MIT
Technology Review. Our paper
was
selected to appear in a compendium of
best papers from ICTD'07 in a special issue of the ITID
Journal.
- Our
collaboration with UC
Berkeley's TIER group received funding from NAS/US State Department
and
HEC. We will be working on Rural WiFi and inverse-multiplexed GPRS
Networks, Developing-world "Teleputer" and Poor Man's Akamai with Eric
Brewer's group. Check out
the Dritte
pages for updates.
- Our
three-way course on "Computing
for the Developing-world" with
University of
Washington and Microsoft Research was broadcast live
between three sites. 20 odd
students attend the course from LUMS (at 6AM Pakistan time). Richard
thinks the course was a great success!
- Our
collaborative project with MIT
on Disease Epidemiology
in Pakistan
received funding from PITB. We will be focusing on TB and Malaria in
Punjab.
- Poor Man's Broadband received funding from the Microsoft Research (MSR) Digital Inclusion Program. This is the first time MSR has funded a research project in Pakistan.