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Probabilistic Electronics & Sustainable Literacy
Krishna V. PalemKenneth and Audrey Kennedy ProfessorProfessor of Computer Science,Electrical and Computer Engineering, and StatisticsBaker Institute Rice Scholar,Director, Institute of Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics Rice University - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Learning by Doing with I-Slate
VISEN
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Probabilistic Electronics
Conventional Conventional(low energy)
Probabilistic(low energy)
Krishna V Palem, “Energy Aware Computing Through Probabilistic Switching: A Study of Limits,” in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 54(9), pp. 1123-1137, September 2005.
Energy Accuracy
Battery life
Energy Accuracy
Battery life
Energy
Accuracy
Battery life
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Probabilistic Electronics and Perception
Conventional modelOver-engineered
HIGH ENERGY
Probabilistic modelAdequately engineered
LOW ENERGY
Visually tolerable
errors
CAN YOU USTNNDERAD TIHS STNECNEE?
Cognitive filling
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Societal Challenge and a Dire Need for Education
Primary schools with less than 3 teachers*417,389
105,964,434 Students with no access to electricity*
Resource Challenged Schools & Students in India
Our Test School in India
*Source: District Information System for Education (DISE) (http://www.dise.in)
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Our Test School and The Surrounding Village
Primary SchoolMohd. Hussainpalli,
(Near Hyderabad), India
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Socio-Economics of Sustainable Electronics
Developed nations
Conventional electronic devices Education
Efficiency
Entertainment
Developing nations
Probabilistic electronics
I-Slate
Rural education
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Sustainable Literacy: Learning by Doing
Traditional Slate I-SlateVS.
No electricityEnergy sustainable
Needs teachersNot literacy sustainable
Ultra low costEconomically sustainable
Photovoltaic cells
Renewable electric source (solar)Energy sustainable
No need for teachersLiteracy sustainable
Ultra low costEconomically sustainableLearning by Doing
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1978
Literacy Sustainability
Herbert A Simon
* Krishna” Palem, Al Barr, Avinash Lingamneni, Vincent Mooney, Rajeswari Pingali, Harini Sampath, Jayanthi Sivaswamy, “I-Slate, Ethnomathematics and Rural Education IEEE Conference on Technologies for Humanitarian Challenges, 2009
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The I-Slate Prototype
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I-Slate Prototype In Practice
Grade 5 students
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Delivering Sustainable Literacy in India
ISAID, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Integration
Pedagogy and content
VISEN Center Rice University
Caltech
Technology
ViDAL, Hyderabad
ViDAL was setup in 2004 to promote development of rural communities in India through information and communication technologies. It launched a award-winning project called “Computers on Wheels’ for people-centered development.
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Three Dimensions of Sustainability
Energy sustainabilityUse of renewable energy sources
Literacy sustainabilityLearning by doing
?Cost sustainability
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What is Cost Sustainability ?
1 year 5 years 10 years
WITHOUT I-SLATEWITH
I-SLATE
Self-sustaining economic growth through literacy
Developmental EconomicsCost
Sustainability
Amartya SenThe Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998
The Nobel Prize in Peace, 2006
Muhammad Yunus
Micro-finance
Skill Income
Value to society
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Beyond the I-Slate through Probabilistic Electronics?
Cost
Quality
Severely Constrained
•No electricity•No teachers•Low per-capita income
No constraintsProbabilistic Machine Learning
Energy sustainable
Ultra-low energy
Entertainment
Education
Efficiency