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 Richard Anderson
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Richard Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985. He joined the University of Washington in 1986, after a one-year Postdoc at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. In 1987 he received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award. He spent the 1993-1994 academic year as a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India, and the 2001-2002 academic year a visiting researcher in the Learning Sciences and Technology group at Microsoft Research. While at Microsoft, he led the development of Classroom Presenter, a tool for delivering presentations from the TabletPC. He was the 2007 recipient of the UW College of Engineering Faculty Innovator for Teaching Award. He was the department's associate chair for educational programs from 2004 through 2009. He spent 2009-2011 on an extended sabbatical, working at PATH, a Seattle based NGO working on health technologies for low resource environments. He continues to work with the Health Management and Information Systems group at PATH on a range projects including Digital Public Health and software systems to support the vaccine cold chain.

Richard Anderson's main research interests are in Computing for the Developing World, Educational Technology, and Pen Based Computing. He is particularly interested in using technology to improve the classroom environment, and in educational applications of the Tablet PC. Previously, he has worked in the theory and implementation of algorithms, including parallel algorithms, computational geometry, and scientific applications. He has also worked on applying model checking to the formal verification of software sytems and has collaborated with Astrophysicists on N-Body simulation. He was a founder of the department's Professional Master's Program and led the effort to export the department's introductory programming courses using Tutored Video Instruction.




New stuff!

  • January 2012
    • Undergraduate Research Seminar, University of Washington, January 20, 2012 (Cancelled due to slush)
    • Change Seminar, University of Washington, January 5, 2012
      • Software and Global Health: Assessing Vaccine Cold Chain from National Equipment Inventories (PPTX PDF PDF Handouts)
    • CSE 490D, Computing for Low Resource Environments Design Seminar
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
    • Paper published in Journal of Enterprise Architecture
      • Rational Systems Design for Helath Information Systems in Low-income Countries: An Enterprise Architecture Approach, Henry Mwanyika, David Lubinski, Richard Anderson, Kelley Chester, Mohamed Makame, Matt Steele, and Don de Savigny, Journal of Enterprise Architecture, November 2011, Volume 7, Number 4, pp. 60-69. PDF
  • October 2011
    • University of Michigan, School of Information Colloquium
  • February - September 2011
    • Lots of stuff to catchup on . . .
  • January 2011
    • PATH Health Innovation Portfolio Brownbag, January 18, 2011
      • Richard Anderson and David Lubinski, The HMIS HIP Portfolio: Bridging Computing and Global Health, (PPTX PDF PDF Handouts)
    • Cold Chain Planning for New Vaccine Introduction, presentation, January 4, 2011
      • Richard Anderson, Sophie Newland, John Lloyd, David Lubinski, Stavano Malvolti, John Wecker, Kate Wilson, Cold Chain Equipment Planning with CCEM, (PPTX PDF PDF Handouts)
  • December 2010
    • Technet Consultation 2010, Kuala Lumpur
      • Richard Anderson, Sophie Newland, John Lloyd, David Lubinski, Cold Chain Equipment Planning with CCEM, (PPTX PDF PDF Handouts)
      • Market Place, CCEM Demo, (Slide based demo: PPTX PDF PDF Handouts)
  • October 2010
  • June 2010
    • NSDR Network Systems for Developing Regions Workshop, San Francisco, CA, June 15, 2010.
      • SmartConnect: Data connectivity for peripheral health facilities, (PPTX, PDF slides)
  • March 2010
  • January 2010
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
    • Richard Anderson and Natalie Linnell Promoting Interaction in Distance Education, eLearn Magazine, August 11, 2009, (HTML)
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
    • Paper submission
    • Workshop Summary
  • April 2009
    • ICTD Conference, Doha
    • EdPG Brownbag
    • MSR Classroom Technology Workshop, UW
    • Paper Submission
    • CSCWD Conference, Santiago, Chile
      • Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Natalie Linnell, Mansoor Pervaiz, Umar Saif and Fred Videon, Collaborative Technologies in International Distance Education, CSCWD, Santiago, Chile, April, 2009. (PDF)
    • CSE 477
  • March 2009
    • Microsoft Research External Research Symposium, Redmond, Washington, March 30-31
      • Richard Anderson and Fred Videon Challenges in Interactive Distance Education, (PPTX, PDF)
    • Classroom Presenter - Interaction in Distance Distance Learning, UW, Departement of Computer Science and Engineering Video
  • February 2009
    • Change Poster Session, February 26, 2009, University of Washington,
      • Richard Anderson and Urvashi Sahni, Poster, Digital StudyHall Chinhat Evaluation Study, (PPT)
    • HP Technology for Teaching Higher Education Conference, February 22-24, San Diego, California
      • Richard Anderson, Classroom Presenter Workshop, (PPT, PDF)
    • Center for Information & Society Speaker Series, University of Washington, February 18, 2008
      • Richard Anderson Digital StudyHall: Chinhat Evaluation Study, (PPT, PDF)
    • Visit to Lucknow, India to work on an evaluation study of Digital StudyHall (Visit notes)
  • January 2009

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