The article describes our work in Africa, collaboration with prof. Amr El Abbadi and prof. Lisa Park's group along with some cool photos we took on our field trips:
We annouced on the local radio station that we were going to talk about research done on traffic patterns in Linknet inMacha and the new VillageNet project at the outdoor projection wall near the restaurant. We also used the Machaworks Facebook site to advertise the meeting.
After two weeks of fighting with technology going wrong in the bush, we finally have 2 VillageCell GSM base stations up in Macha, Zambia. Phone calls are now being made within a 5km radius between multiple base stations, using an existing Wi-Fi-based backhaul.
In recognition of her work with her own graduate students, as well as for the work she does on behalf of all the graduate students in the Computer Science department, Prof. Belding won UCSB's Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award 2012! This includes her work as a Graduate Program Advisor as well as her oversight of the Computer Science graduate program. Congratulations!
Our senior Ph.D. student, Veljko Pejovic, will graduate this summer and leave us to become a postdoc at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Congratulations Veljko, we will miss you!
Elizabeth, Veljko and David attended ACM DEV and ICTD 2012 which were co-located in Atlanta. David presented a paper on VillageShare at ACMDEV describing an architecture to localize traffic in an African village when user's are sharing content with each other.
