High “return-on-learning”
“Business intelligence” software for schools links classroom technology and strategies to student achievement.
Tracking what students grasp
Socrative mobile quiz app saves teachers time and offers real-time data on student comprehension of material.
Ride-sharing could cut cabs’ road time by 30 percent
A new analytic framework enables analysis of GPS data on 150 million cab rides in New York City.
A market for emotions
With emotion-tracking software, Affectiva attracts big-name clients, aims for “mood-aware” Internet.
ScratchJr: Coding for kindergarten
With a new app, young children learn important skills as they program stories and games.
CEE Research Speed Dating identifies new synergies among faculty and students
New app launched at event maps conference connections in real time.
App Inventor launches second iteration
Since its 2009 creation, more than a million people have registered to use App Inventor, which is now based out of the MIT Media Lab.
Building disaster-relief phone apps on the fly
Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise.
CSAIL research examines how smartphone apps track users
Decentralized Information Group shows that many applications collect data even when 'idle'
MIT iPhone and Android apps provide access to many Libraries' services
Download the free MIT Mobile Android or Mobile iPhone app and gain access to many MIT services, including several offered by the Libraries.
The MIT roots of Google’s new software
Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.