Doug Engelbart's created the modern computing system to help teams attack the complex problems the world was facing. Today, our student teams start from this same perspective, attacking some of the important problems our planet faces.
Climate Change and its impacts are already having profound impacts on human and animal life on our planet. How can information technology be brought to bear to improve the situation?
Health care quality, cost, and access are important problems both in the devleoped and developing world. How might we make it better?
Quality education is tied to many future life outcomes and therefore impacts other important problems such as poverty. Student projects can make a difference by coming up with new ideas for education.