Transcript (Sandy) Pentland - Center for Bits and Atoms

Global Partnerships
Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Founding Director
Media Lab Asia
MIT Media Laboratory
The Opportunity:
The next generation of new technologies…
….will be shaped by the needs
of six billion people
Developing Nations Opportunity:
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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
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)
The Media Lab Asia
What: A network of national laboratories dedicated
to bringing the benefits of emerging technologies
to the masses
Goal: Enable US$1B investment in innovative
rural infrastructure and services leveraging $200M
Government of India seed funding
Founder / Director: Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Research Area #1: BITS FOR ALL
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TOMORROWS
TOOLS
DIGITAL
VILLAGE
WORLD
COMPUTER
BITS FOR ALL
Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Networks
Human-Scale Paintable Computers
Mobile wireless network for rural communities that
provides information and communication services
to an entire community
Schools
INTERNET
256 Kbps
LINCOS
Container
11 Mbps
City
11 Mbps
Houses
City
Hall
Hall
Rural
Clinic
(M.L. Best, L. Burnes, M. Escobedo & H. Shakeel, forthcoming)
Small
business
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks:
Internet at $0.01/user
www.media.mit.edu/~amir/daknet
Area #2: TOMMORROWS TOOLS
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TOMORROWS
TOOLS
DIGITAL
VILLAGE
WORLD
COMPUTER
BITS FOR ALL
$50 UV-VIS spectrometer for
measuring contaminents
$50 complex RF impedance
analyzer for assaying
material composition
BIOSENSOR DESIGN
OPTICAL SENSING USING A POROUS SILICON
MICROCAVITY DESIGN
PSi Multilayer Mirror
PSi Central Layer
PSi Multilayer Mirror
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER  CENTER FOR FUTURE HEALTH
Area #3:
WORLD COMPUTER
….
TOMORROWS
TOOLS
DIGITAL
VILLAGE
WORLD
COMPUTER
BITS FOR ALL
Nanotectics
Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph Jacobson,
All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors Fabricated by Printing,
Science (286) 746, 1999
Research Area #4: DIGITAL VILLAGE
….
TOMORROWS
TOOLS
DIGITAL
VILLAGE
WORLD
COMPUTER
BITS FOR ALL
LINCOS Village Centers
www.lincos.net
More Information
http://www.medialabasia.org
http://www.media.mit.edu/dn
http://www.media.mit.edu/~pentland
Baatchit Village Centers
www.jiva.org/outreach/baatchit
Computer
Clubhouses
www.computerclubhouse.org