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.
Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise.
Systems that can convert written specifications into working code in a few narrow cases could be generalized to other tasks.
With a recently released programming framework, researchers show that a new machine-learning algorithm outperforms its predecessors.
200 high-school students participate in MIT’s annual Zero Robotics competition.
Nick Montfort and colleagues examine cultural significance of computer code in new book.
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.
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.
By using ‘genetic programming’ to crossbreed algorithms, researchers help flavor companies figure out what their customers like.