Awards and Public Service for Jim Fruchterman and/or Benetech

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2006
• Technical Advisory Committee Member, National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard, U.S. Department of Education (2005-present)
• Advisory Committee Member, National Instructional Materials Accessibility Center, U.S. Department of Education (2006- present)
• Laureate, The 2001 and 2003 Tech Museum Awards (for the Bookshare.org and Martus projects)
• American Library Association Francis Joseph Campbell Award 2003
• Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award of 2003: attending the World Economic Forum in Davos from 2003 until 2008
• Member, the Community Partnership Committee, which oversees a diversity and disability agreement with AT&T
• Runner-up, Yale-Goldman Sachs National Nonprofit Business Plan Competition, 2003
• American Foundation for the Blind Access Award, 2003
• Robert S. Bray Award, The American Council of the Blind
• Winner, Education Category, 2002 Stockholm Challenge (for the Bookshare.org project)
• Fast 50 Champion of Innovation
• Judge, 2002 and 2006 Global Social Venture Competition
• Founding Member, Board of Directors of the Social Enterprise Alliance (2000-present)
• Member of the Advisory Board, Telecommunications Access Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, a joint effort of the Trace R&D Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Technology Access Program of Gallaudet University, 2001-present
• Panelist, National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Program, 1998, 2000, 2003
• Member, Electronic Information and Technology Access Advisory Committee, a federal advisory committee responsible for drafting federal acquisition standards for accessibility under Section 508, 1998-1999
• Member, Telecommunications Access Advisory Committee, a federal advisory committee responsible for making recommendations to the U.S. Access Board and Federal Communications Commission on implementing portions of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, 1996-1997
• U.S. Patent Number 5,470,223: System and Method for Tracking a Pedestrian
• Finalist, 1996 Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation
• 1996 Access Award, American Foundation for the Blind

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Awards and Public Service for Patrick Ball

• Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (2005)
• Eugene Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics (2003)
• Special Achievement Award of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (2002)
• Sawyer Fellowship in the Advanced Study Center of the International Institute of the University of Michigan. Topic: Globalizing Social Movements. (1995)
• Rackham Graduate Students Regents' Fellowship, Department of Sociology, The University of Michigan (1988).
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1988-1991)

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Publications and Talks by Jim Fruchterman

Recent Publications

• Accessing Books and Documents, a chapter in the forthcoming book, Assistive Technology for Vision-Impaired and Blind People, to be published by Springer Verlag in 2007
• Everyone deserves access to technology, online world, OpEd in the Sacramento Bee, by Jim Fruchterman and Gregg Vanderheiden, June 17, 1007.
• Google Print and Accessibility, 2005
• Technology Benefiting Humanity, published in Ubiquity, the ACM’s on-line journal, 2004
• In the Palm of Your Hand: A Vision of the Future of Technology for People with Visual Impairments, published in the American Foundation for the Blind’s Journal of Vision Impairment and Blindness, October 2003.
• The Chafee Amendment: Improving Access to Information, published in Information Technology and Disabilities, a journal published by Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI), co-authored with Bookshare.org Senior Product Manager Alison Lingane, October 2003.
• The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights Conflict and Access to Commercial EBooks for People with Disabilities, published in First Monday, co-authored with George Kerscher, the International Project Manager of the DAISY Consortium, May 2002
• Bookshare.org, Books without Barriers, at the Closing the Gap conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2001
• Two talks given at the IT Accessibility 2001 Conference, May 2001 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
     - I Dream of Software (Available online)
     - The Business Case for Adaptive Technology (Available online)
• A talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of the Machine, Boston, MA, February 2000: Humanizing the Voice of the Machine, with Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
• The Many Facets of Open Book: Ruby Edition, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), 15th Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 2000
• Corporate Responsibility for Adaptive Technology
  California State University, Northridge (CSUN), 14th Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, March, 1999
  Available online.
• Developing Partnerships for Assistive and Universally Designed Technology for Persons with Disabilities, Testimony before United States House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, August 4, 1998
  Available online.
• The Future of Talking Software
  CSUN 12th Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, March, 1997
• The Future of Reading Machines
  CSUN 11th Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, March, 1996
• Access to Maps and Location Information through Virtual Reality Techniques and GPS Satellite Receivers, 3rd International Technical Aids Seminar, Tokyo, Japan, July, 1994

Invited Talks

• Global Social Venture Competition Finals, keynote speaker, New York, 2006
• PARC Forum, 2006
• It’s Not Rocket Science: Building Social Enterprises”, keynote speaker, 7^th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance, 2006
• Seventh International Association for Pattern Recognition Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, keynote speaker, Nelson, New Zealand, 2006
• Alliance for Technology Access Institute, keynote speaker, 2005
• Social Entrepreneurship talks at the following universities during 2005 and 2006
• UC Davis
• UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
• University of the Pacific
• University of Geneva
• Oxford University
• Columbia University
• Santa Clara University
• Stanford University
• Harvard University
• Overcoming Barriers to Building a Global Library for People with Print
  Disabilities, World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, 2005
• Entrepreneurial Technology Approaches to Societal Problems in the Developed and Developing World, Net Impact Annual Conference, 2005
• Seizing Market Failure as an Investment Opportunity, keynote speaker at Business for Social Responsibility Annual Conference, Los Angeles, November 2003.
• In the Palm of Your Hand, keynote speaker for the World Blind Union Asia Pacific conference, Singapore, November, 2003
• Technology and Human Rights, University of Peredeniya, Sri Lanka, November, 2003
• When Markets Fail, Who Responds? Discussion Leader at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 2003
• Technology for Nonprofits, with Michael Gilbert, National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December, 2002
• Bookshare.org: Large Scale, Web-Based Accessible Books, TechShare conference organized by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, Birmingham, UK, November 2002
• Putting Technology to Work for Development, speech at the United Nations to the joint meeting of the World Technology Network and UNOPS, July 2002
  Click here to listen to audio of speech (MP3 Format)
  Click here to read the text of speech (Microsoft Word Format)
• Bookshare.org: The Project for Creating Accessible Books through Computers, at the General Session of the National Federation of the Blind 2002 Annual Convention, July 2002
• Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Conference, January 2002
• The Once and Future Web: Tenth Anniversary of the First U.S. Web Page at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, December 2001
• NetImpact Annual Conference at Kenan-Flagler Business School, November 2001
• American Council of the Blind Annual Convention, July 2001
• Guest lectures at Haas Business School, Seattle Pacific University
• Bringing Socially Beneficial Technology into the Service of Humanity, EE380 at Stanford University, April 2001
• Information Technology in the Service of Human Rights at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, March 2001
• International Technical Aids Seminar, Tokyo, Japan
• Rank Prize Fund Symposium, Grasmere, England
• Guest Lecturer for CSUN program in disability leadership

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Publications and Presentations by Patrick Ball

2006

• Silva, Romesh and Patrick Ball, "The Profile of Human Rights Violations in Timor-Leste, 1974-1999", a Report by the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group to the Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation. 9 February 2006. Available online at http://www.hrdag.org/timor.
• Silva, Romesh, and Patrick Ball. "The Demography of Large-Scale Human Rights Atrocities: Integrating demographic and statistical analysis into post-conflict historical clarification in Timor-Leste." Paper presented at the 2006 meetings of the Population Association of America.
• Silva, Romesh and Patrick Ball. "The Demography of Conflict-Related Mortality in Timor-Leste (1974-1999): Empirical Quantitative Measurement of Civilian Killings, Disappearances & Famine-Related Deaths" In Papers on Human Rights and Statistics, D. Banks, J. Asher and F. Scheuren, eds., ASA/SIAM Monograph Series, Philadelphia, PA (USA), pp. 42-57. (Forthcoming: May, 2006)

2005

• Ball, Patrick. "On the Quantification of Horror: Field Notes on Statistical Analysis of Human Rights Violations." in Repression and Mobilization, ed. by Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P. 2005.
• Ball, Patrick. 2005. "Free Software," in The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. ed. by Carl Mitcham. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale.
• Silva, Romesh and Patrick Ball. "On the Use of Sample Surveys and Multiple Systems Estimations in Assessing Large-Scale Human Rights Violations: Recent Experiences from Timor-Leste." Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section – Joint Statistical Meetings. New York, (USA). August, 2005.
• Silva, Romesh. "Quantitative Data Analysis and Large-Scale Human Rights Violations: An Example of Applied Statistics at the Grassroots." Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society. Canberra (Australia). Volume 32, Number 2, May 2005.

2004

• Sierra Leone Statistical Appendix Adobe Acrobat PDF format, 407 Kb
• Foundation of Human Rights Statistics in Sierra Leone (abstr.) by Richard Conibere
• Ball, Patrick. 2004. "Statistics," in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. ed. by Dinah L. Shelton, Howard Adelman, Frank Chalk, Alexandre Kiss & William A. Schabas. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale.

2003

• Human freedom and free software: Why choices about technology matter to human rights advocates by Patrick Ball and Miguel Cruz
• How Many Peruvians Have Died?
  PDF version
  HTML version
• Preliminary Statistical Analysis of AVCRP & DDS Documents - A report to Human Rights Watch about Chad under the government of Hissène Habré, November 4, 2003 Adobe Acrobat PDF format, 151 kb
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Perú, Final Report - General Conclusions

2002

• Statistics and Slobodan by Patrick Ball and Jana Asher [Chance vol. 15, No. 4, 2002]
• Davenport, Christian, and Patrick Ball. "Views to a Kill: Exploring the Implications of Source Selection in the Case of Guatemalan State Terror, 1977-1996." Journal of Conflict Resolution 46(3): 427-450. 2002.
• Killings and Refugee Flow in Kosovo, March - June, 1999
• Responses to questions from ICTY office
• Corrigendum to ICTY
• Silva, Romesh "On the Maintenance and Measurement of Inter-Rater Reliability when Documenting Large-Scale Human Rights Violations." Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, the International Biometric Society (ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Statistical Society of Canada. August, 2002.

2001

• Ball, Patrick. "Making the Case: The Role of Statistics in Human Rights Reporting." Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. 18(2-3):163-174. 2001.
• "Understanding Human Rights Violation Data through the Analysis of Circuits." Co-authored with Jana Asher. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, 2001
• Chapman, Audrey R. and Patrick Ball. "The Truth of Truth Commissions: Comparative Lessons from Haiti, South Africa, and Guatemala." Human Rights Quarterly. 23(4):1-42. 2001

2000

• Justice Unknown, Justice Unsatisfied?
• Kosovo Migration Study
• Policy or Panic? The Flight of Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, March-May 1999: Click on “English” (“Albanian” or “Serbian”) under Table of Contents to accesses the html version
• Political Killings in Kosovo
• Making the Case: Investigating Large Scale Human Rights Violations Using Information Systems and Data Analysis. (ed. with Herbert F. Spirer and Louise Spirer). Washington, DC: AAAS, 2000.

1999

• State Violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996: a Quantitative Reflection. (with Paul Kobrak and Herbert F. Spirer) Washington DC: AAAS, 1999.

1996

• Who Did What to Whom?

1991 – 1993

• Technical work at the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES-ng)

Publications

• "How many Peruvians have died? An estimate of the total number of victims killed or disappeared in the armed internal conflict between 1980 and 2000." A report to the Peruvian Commission for Truth and Justice [CVR]; also published as Anexo 2 of the CVR report. Co-authored with Jana Asher, David Sulmont, and Daniel Manrique. Washington, DC: AAAS, August 2003.
• "Using Multiple System Estimation to Assess the Magnitude and Pattern of Political Killings in Guatemala and Kosovo." Proceedings of the Meetings of the International Statistical Institute. Berlin, Germany, August, 2003.
• " Killings and Refugee Flow in Kosovo, March-June 1999: A Report to the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia." Co-authored with Wendy Betts, Fritz Scheuren, Jana Dudokovic, and Jana Asher. Washington, DC: AAAS, January 2002.
• Political Killings in Kosova/Kosovo, March - June 1999. (with the American Bar Association-Central and East European Law Initiative). Washington DC: ABA/CEELI-AAAS, 2000.
• Policy or Panic? Patterns of Kosovar Albanian Refugee Flow, March-May 1999. Washington DC: AAAS, 2000.
• "Information Technology, Information Management, and Human Rights: A Response to Metzl." Co-authored with Mark Girouard and Audrey R. Chapman. Human Rights Quarterly. 19(4): 836-859, 1997.
• Who Did What to Whom: Planning and Implementing a Large-Scale Human Rights Data Project. Washington, DC: AAAS, 1996.
• "Abstract Fields and Dynamic Data Types." FoxTalk. 5(12):3-13, 1993.

Presentations

• "The cryptography saga and the virtualization of data: implications for human rights work." Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '03, April 2003.
• "Statistics and Slobodan: Crunching Big Data for the Prosecution in the Trial of Former President." Presented to plenary session of Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 2003. (Also presented to the Washington Statistical Society, May, 2002; "Seminar on Bomb Damage Assessment," convened by Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights, Washington DC, June 2002; Keynote at Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, October 2002; Keynote at "Art, Media, and Human Rights: Dignity without Borders," Columbia College of Chicago, May 2003).
• "Hacktivism and Human Rights." Presented to the annual meeting of DefCon, Las Vegas, NV, July 2001. (See http://defcon.org/).
• "Making the Case: Statistics as Information Technology for Human Rights." Presented to the
  Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, Boston, MA, March 2001.
• "Making the Case: The Role of Statistics in Human Rights Reporting." Presented to the bi-annual meeting of the International Association for Official Statistics, Montreux, Switzerland, September 2000. (Also presented to the annual meetings of the American Bar Association, Law and Technology Group, New York, NY, July 2000; and a conference organized by The Crimes of War Project, Washington, DC, May 2000).
• "Kosovar Albanian Refugee Flows: data sources, methods, and limitation." Presented with Fritz Scheuren at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, March 2000.
• "Statistics and Data Analysis in the Service of Human Rights: A Case Study." Presented at the Annual Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD, August 1999.
• "Security Problems for Human Rights Organizations Using the Internet." Presented to the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, Austin, TX. (also presented to CUSHRID-Net, May 1998, Washington DC; Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Cambridge MA, October 1998; and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Cambridge, MA, November 1998).
• "Cryptographic Applications for Human Rights Organizations Using the Internet." A Briefing sponsored by AAAS and the House Subcommittee on Technology. Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, August 1997.
• "Survey Design for Human Rights Organizations." Workshop given at the Third Annual Meeting of the Canada-U.S. Human Rights Information and Documentation Network (CUSHRID-Net) meetings. Presented with Margaret Weigers. College Park, MD, November 1996.
• "Common Errors in Database Design for Human Rights Applications." Presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the Canada-U.S. Human Rights Information and Documentation Network (CUSHRID-Net) meetings. College Park, MD, November 1995.

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Publications by Benetech Staff

• Silva, Romesh, Britto Fernando, and Vasuki Nesiah. 2007. " Clarifying the Past and Commemorating Sri Lanka's Disappeared: a Descriptive Analysis of Enforced Disappearances Documented by Families of the Disappeared." Benetech & Families of the Disappeared.