Alok Deshpande
Co-Founder and Chief Software Architect, Loopt
Alok heads up mobile product development at Loopt. Equal parts developer and product thinker, Alok’s responsibility is creating a fun to use product that is well engineered.
Prior to co-founding Loopt, Alok studied computer science at Stanford University. He worked in several design and development capacities with various startups and student organizations.
Sessions
11:00am Thursday, 12/03/2009
Location: Online
Alok Deshpande (Loopt),
Nick Brachet (Skyhook Wireless)
The iPhone includes several ways to determine your location: cellular tower triangulation, Wi-Fi-based positioning using Skyhook Wireless's system, and GPS. Alok Deshpande from Loopt, will discuss what they learned about building location-aware apps. Alok will be followed by Nick Brachet, who will give an overview of the Skyhook system and how it uses WiFi to provide location to applications.
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