Topic
Programming languages
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Julia Lab joins team to speed up drug approval process
Health Analytics Collective uses real-world evidence to modernize health and drug development decisions.
January 25, 2019 -
Introducing Scratch 3.0
The new version of the popular free coding platform builds on a robust community of kid coders.
January 8, 2019 -
MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts
The dynamic programming language, which is free and open source, combines the speed and popular features of the best scientific and technical software.
August 27, 2018 -
Celebrating 10 years of Scratch
Scratch Day @ MIT was one of more than 1,100 global events during May to celebrate the kids’ programming language and online community on its 10th anniversary.
May 11, 2017 -
JuliaCon draws global users of a dynamic, easy-to-learn programming language
Now three years old, the Julia programming language is helping to solve problems in areas such as economic modeling, spaceflight, and bioinformatics.
July 18, 2016 -
Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour.
July 9, 2015 -
Arvind elected as India National Academy of Sciences Foreign Fellow
December 23, 2014 -
Harnessing error-prone chips
New system would allow programmers to easily trade computational accuracy for energy savings.
October 30, 2014 -
Self-completing programs
A system that automatically fills in the gaps in programmers’ code becomes more powerful.
February 25, 2014 -
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.
September 30, 2013 -
Writing programs using ordinary language
Systems that can convert written specifications into working code in a few narrow cases could be generalized to other tasks.
July 11, 2013 -
How computers can learn better
With a recently released programming framework, researchers show that a new machine-learning algorithm outperforms its predecessors.
May 29, 2013 -
Kids coding in the cloud
MIT Media Lab launches new generation of Scratch online community.
May 14, 2013 -
Liskov named Charter Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
February 14, 2013 -
Life in BASIC
Nick Montfort and colleagues examine cultural significance of computer code in new book.
January 2, 2013 -
Making Web applications more efficient
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.
August 31, 2012 -
Writing graphics software gets much easier
A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that’s much shorter and clearer — but also faster.
August 2, 2012 -
Excel programming for nonprogrammers
A new system allows Excel users to create customized functions for their spreadsheets simply by offering a few examples of how data should be manipulated.
May 8, 2012 -
Liskov named to National Inventors Hall of Fame
March 1, 2012 -
An oracle for object-oriented programmers
By automatically cataloging connections between software 'objects,' a new system orients programmers joining large software projects in midstream.
October 7, 2011