CSE 651 Advanced Topics in Computer Science - Seminar on Mobile Computing for Informal Economies

CSE 651 Advanced Topics in Computer Science
Seminar on Mobile Computing for Informal Economies

Fall 2008 - Spring 2009

Meets: Each Thursday (Fall 2008), Spring 2009- t.b.a
Time: t.b.a.
Room: 1441 in CS building

News:

THIS IS LAST FALL PAGE;

The seminar with PROFESSORS JENNIFER WONG AND ANITA WASILEWSKA will be offered THIS SPRING (2009)

NEW DESCRIPTION is comming soon;

FOR SPRING 2009: LOOK up the FAll 2008 STUDENTS FINAL PROJECTS! and other materials

Each Project Group will present on Thursday December 4 a 250 Word Project Summary (version 1) for NCIIA 13th Annual Meeting

Please SEND me your LAST Presentations!

Seminar Meetings Summaries are in Downloads

Lecture Slides on Mobile Phone Programming are in Downloads

General Overview of Possible Fall 2008 Projects is in Downloads

Some useful LINKS are added to the page

Instructors Information

Instructor: Anita Wasilewska
Email: anita at cs dot sunysb dot edu
Instructor: Jennifer Wong
Email: jwongb at cs dot sunysb dot edu
Office: CS Building room 1428
Phone: (631) 632-8458
Office Hours: To be determined

Fall 2008 Seminar Description

The seminar will meet once a week. It will work on two levels. The first level will be based on research in the area of ubiquitous computing, with emphasis on mobile computing. We will look for applications already developed for US markets, for African countries, and Cambodia, India, and China. We are interested in tracing the common trends and explore the differences.

On the second, most important level we will develop our own applications. We are first targeting the Senegalese market because we (Christelle Scharff from Pace University and I) were awarded a grant from NCIIA (National Collegiate of Innovators and Inventors Agency entitled Sustainable Technology-based Entrepreneurship for the Senegalese Market.
We will collaborate with National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and Women Business Center(WBC) incubator located in Saint Louis, Senegal.

Seminar Organization

The seminar format involves discussions and presentations, majority led by students.

Project

Our main goal is to develop Mobile Phone applications for businesses connected with the Women Business Center (WBC) located in Saint Louis, Senegal.

In general, we will also look into development of mobile phone prototypes that target as many informal economies as possible.

Students will use J2ME to develop prototypes on emulators and install them on some phones I will provide, or on their own phones. The prototypes will then be tested in January 2009 with WBC clients.

Student Evaluations

The instructor will base the evaluations of the students performance on their level of participation during the discussions, and the quality of their project's presentation and final written report.