development by design 2002 : Conference Organizers and Sponsors

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		dyd02 Conference Organizers
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS		Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Professor, MIT Media Lab and Director, Media Lab Asia Geetha Narayanan, Director, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS		Vijay Chandru, Indian Institute of Sciences and PicoPeta Simputers, Bangalore Poonam Bir Kasturi, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore Nitin Sawhney, MIT Media Lab and Dept. Urban Studies and Planning Prem Chandavarkar, Chandavarkar & Thacker Architects Ltd, Bangalore, India Arvind Lodhya, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
PROGRAM COMMITTEE		Subbiah Arunachalam, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India Eleonora Badilla-Saxe, Visiting Researcher, MIT Media Lab and Digital Nations Anupam Basu, Professor, Dept. Computer Science and Engg., IIT Kharagpur, India Genevieve Bell, Anthropologist, People and Practices Research, Intel Labs, Portland, USA Michael Best, Research Scientist, eDevelopment Group, MIT Media Lab Leo Burd, PhD Candidate, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab Uma Chandru, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore H. N. Chanakya, Principle Research Scientist, ASTRA, IISC, Bangalore, India Kamau Gachigi, Lecturer & Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nairobi, Kenya Ashok J. Gadgil, Senior Staff Scientist, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Edmond Gaible, Natoma Group and Executive Director of Educational Object Economy Neil Gershenfeld, Professor, Physics and Media, MIT Media Lab Saul Griffith, PhD Candidate, Molecular Machines, MIT Media Lab B. Gurumoorthy, Professor, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, IISC, Bangalore, India Joanne M. Kauffman, Principle Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment Harish Hande, Managing Director, Selco Electric Light Company, Bangalore, India Ralf Hotchkiss, Whirlwind Wheelchair International, San Francisco State University Pankaj Jain, Education Support Organization and IIM, Ahmedabad, India Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor, Telecom and Computer Networks (TeNeT), IIT Madras, India Ashok Khosla, President, Development Alternatives, New Delhi, India Pablo La Roche, Associate Professor, University of Zulia and PhD Candidate, University of California Los Angeles Libby Levison, Post-Doctoral Associate, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) N. Rao Machiraju, Chairman of the Board, Concept Labs, USA Yael Maguire, PhD Candidate, Physics and Media, MIT Media Lab Bakhtiar Mikhak, Research Scientist, Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Lab Susan Murcott, Lecturer, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Timothy Prestero, PhD candidate, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanographic Engineering P. Achuta Rao, Professor, School of Post Graduate Studies, NTTF, Bangalore, India N Ramani, Principle, School of Post Graduate Studies, NTTF, Bangalore, India Mitchel Resnick, Professor, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab Gilson Schwartz, Visiting Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Bish Sanyal, Professor, MIT Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning Amy Smith, Instructor, MIT Public Service Center and Lemelson-MIT 2000 Award Recipient Umakant Soni, I Cube Labs, Bangalore, India William Thies, PhD Candidate, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) M. P. Vasimalai, Executive Director, DHAN Foundation, Madurai, India

SPONSORS		Media Lab Asia Infosys Technologies Alliance for Global Sustainability (MIT/AGS)

IN COOPERATION WITH		Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) Indian Institute of Sciences Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology ThinkCycle MIT Media Lab Digital Nations Concept Labs

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Updated: Nov 10, 2002