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From:       Mark Miller <markm () cs ! jhu ! edu>
Date:       2004-11-25 16:56:21
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Subject: [CSL Colloq] 4:15PM * Wednesday, December 01, 2004 * Martus
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:47:23 -0800
From: allison@stanford.edu
Reply-To: ee380@shasta.stanford.edu
To: markm@caplet.com


               COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
                4:15PM, Wednesday, December 01, 2004
        NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
                    http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]

Topic:    Martus
           Human Rights Technology

Speaker:  Jim Fruchterman
           Martus, Benetech

About the talk:

The human rights field is an information processing industry, but
doesn't offer enough profits to attract software companies to
develop for the unique needs of human rights groups. Benetech
bridges this gap by building open source software solutions for
human rights groups, using a product manager approach to design
and implementation.

This talk will explore the needs of the human rights field from
grassroots activists to truth commissions and genocide
prosecutions. Technology can advance the cause of global human
rights by building the right information tools to enhance
advocacy, document and monitor rights violations, and support the
seeking of justice.

About the speaker:

Jim Fruchterman has been a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and
executive since 1981, when he dropped out of his EE Ph.D. program
at Stanford. He was a founder of Calera Recognition Systems and
RAF Technology, both leading firms in the optical character
recognition field.

Jim holds a B.S. and M.S. from Caltech in Engineering and Applied
Physics. For the last fifteen years, he has also headed Benetech,
Silicon Valley's deliberately nonprofit high tech company
specializing in technology for socially beneficial applications.

Contact information:

Jim Fruchterman, President & CEO
Benetech
480 California Ave, Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
(650) 475-5440 x-106
Fax: (650) 475-1066
president@benetech.org


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     --MarkM

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