Hi, an update on the Skunkworks meeting on Tuesday. The panel will be comprised of the following:

Jonathan Ledlie is a Senior Researcher in Networked Systems at Nokia.  His interests include experimental large-scale distributed and mobile systems and ICTD.  He has a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University and is currently based at the Cambridge (US) Nokia Research Center.

Jay Chen is a fourth year Systems and Networking Computer Science PhD candidate at New York University.  His research areas include AI, with a focus on Natural Language Processing, and ICTD.

Brian Omwenga is a Research Engineer currently working at Nokia Research currently based in Nairobi. His interests include Large Scale Open Systems analysis and design, strategy and ICTD. He is a science master in Technology and Policy from the Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Billy Odero is a Research Engineer at Nokia Research Currently based in Nairobi working on the development of mobile systems for emerging markets.

The projects:

[1] Tangaza -  An audio based social networking service on mobile phones

[2] NokiaSMSFind - An intelligent sms based search service