Prior to his time in India, Kentaro did computer vision and multimedia research at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA and Cambridge, UK, and taught mathematics at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana. : Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology (9781610395281) by Toyama, Kentaro and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. He is also co-editor-in-chief of the journal Information Technologies and International Development. Kentaro co-founded the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) to provide a global platform for rigorous academic research in this field. The award-winning group is known for projects such as MultiPoint, Text-Free User Interfaces, and Digital Green. At MSR India, he started the Technology for Emerging Markets research group, which conducts interdisciplinary research to understand how the world's poorer communities interact with electronic technology and to invent new ways for technology to support their socio-economic development. Previously, he was a researcher at UC Berkeley and assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, which he co-founded in 2005. He is the author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. In his book Geek Heresy, Kentaro Toyama writes about his journey as a computer scientist who engages in projects for social good.He writes of his deep disillusionment with the power of technology.
Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information and a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.
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