Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Open House
Kathy Cahill, Associate Dean, Accessibility and Usability
| Feb/02 | Thu | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 7-143 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Prereq: None
The Assistive Technology Information Center opens its doors to show visitors the latest in commercially available assistive technologies for people with disabilities. We will demonstrate
Learn about ways to make your website and documents more accessible to people with disabilities. See examples of tactile diagrams and other ways to make information accessible.
Sponsor(s): ATIC Lab
Contact: Kathleen Cahill, 7-143, 617 253-5111, KCAHILL@MIT.EDU
Design Fundamentals for Engineering Workshop
Viet-Anh D. Nguyen, 2011 MEng
| Jan/10 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:30AM | 56-167 |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:30AM | 56-167 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: No former design knowledge; basic web programming covered
Learn design fundamentals for engineering using one of the most prominent interface design languages, called Material Design, developed in 2014 by Google (Learn more at https://material.google.com/, https://material.io/
Learn to
Apply information hierarchy to make any document or proposal more compelling
Convey any message effectively to people amidst noises and distractions.
Be able to identify bad interfaces for users.
Look at any website and app, and can break down into common components.
Take advantage of thoughtful Material Design components in your website and app.
Bring laptop.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Viet-Anh D. Nguyen, vietanh@bettergui.com
ESRI StoryMaps & Web Apps
Jennie Murack, Madeline Wrable
| Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Learn how to tell a story with your map by adding photographs and videos or creating a customized map viewer using a Web App. No coding required! We will provide sample data, however feel free to provide your own photo collection. The easiest place to store your photos for the map is in a public album on Flickr or you can reference images by the url if they are stored on your own web server.
You can bring your own laptop or use a lab computer.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2963280
Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU
Introduction to wikis.mit.edu
Heather Anne Harrison, Knowledge Management Team
| Jan/31 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/30
Limited to 35 participants
Learn how to get up and running with your own wikis.mit.edu collaboration space on the web. All MIT community community groups, projects, and organizations are eligible for these free web spaces that can be restricted to your group or opened up for the world to see. This introduction to wikis.mit.edu will cover requesting spaces; creating/editing pages; formatting content, using macros to structure your site; sharing attachments; and permissions control including touchstone collaboration accounts and moira groups.
Sponsor(s): Information Systems & Technology
Contact: Heather Harrison, W91-219B, 617 253-8969, AURORA@MIT.EDU
iOS Development with Swift
Nina Kominiak, Apple Consulting Engineer
| Jan/30 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 2-105 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 40 participants
Prereq: Basic programming knowledge
Join us to learn about Apple’s new Objective-C based programming language with one of Apple's consulting engineers, Nina Kominiak. Fast, modern, safe and interactive — Swift has been proven to be more efficient at complex object sorts and more reliable for RC4 encryptions. In this seminar, we will be going over the basics of Swift and sharing resources that can help you jumpstart developing your next iOS application.
Reserve your spot at developer.mit.edu/iapswift
Sponsor(s): Information Systems & Technology
Contact: Amber Bennoui, W92-254G, 617 324-6573, BENNOUI@MIT.EDU
iOS Security
Nina Kominiak, Apple Consulting Engineer
| Jan/31 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 45 participants
Join us to learn about Apple iOS security best practices and implementation with one of Apple's consulting engineers, Nina Kominiak. In this seminar, we will be going over the basics of iOS security and share resources that can help you easily implement these security features in your next iOS application.
Reserve your spot at developer.mit.edu/iap-ios-security
Make sure to also check out iOS Development with Swift (developer.mit.edu/iapswift).
Sponsor(s): Information Systems & Technology
Contact: Amber Bennoui, W92-254G, 617 324-6573, BENNOUI@MIT.EDU
Learn WordPress and Azure for Web Development and IoT
Jialin.Shi@studentpartner.com, Binh Le, Microsoft Student Partner
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
Learn the basics of web development using WordPress, cloud computing using Microsoft Azure, and do an IoT Project!
No prior technical experience necessary.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Jialin Shi, Jialin.Shi@studentpartner.com
| Jan/31 | Tue | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 32-141, Bring Laptop |
Web Development using WordPress and Microsoft Azure: Learn the basics about web development using WordPress and cloud computing using Microsoft Azure in this workshop that will take you step-by-step through a tutorial to create, design, and deploy your own web portfolio. Your new Microsoft Imagine account will give you access to free software! No prior technical experience necessary.
Binh Le - Microsoft Student Partner
| Feb/01 | Wed | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 32-141, Bring Laptop |
Learn to build a temperature, humidity, and pressure reader using Microsoft Azure IoT starter kits. Leverage Azure IoT services to create your own IoT architecture on the cloud. Tinker with one of our Microsoft Azure IoT starter kits and run a simple remote monitoring solution to communicate with the cloud!
Jialin.Shi@studentpartner.com
Startups, Coding, and a Contest
Kevin Cheung
| Jan/18 | Wed | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: coding experience, interest in startups and competitions
Join us to learn about startups and coding, and our launch of a new coding project contest to connect student developers with startups. The current hiring process doesn't give student developers enough room to stand out, and often rewards networking more than coding ability.
Slides of the talk are available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rAjhjUGXkpAubxNKioneItrxqPUHclO52kW_T4PcZ88
In our presentation, we'll reveal our candid take on startups so you can make an informed decision on whether they're right for you. Next, we'll go over some non-obvious coding lessons we had to learn the hard way. Then, we'll invite you to participate in our code contest as well as share relevant details. Finally, we'll give our closing remarks and direct you to the food!
If you're interested in working at a startup or launching your own, or if you're looking for a way to stand out to employers, this talk is for you.
Register for this event at codecontest.org/register.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Kevin Cheung, kevin@codecontest.org
Unintuitive and Insecure: Fixing the Failures of the Authentication User Experience
Jared Spool
| Jan/19 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | E51-345 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: programming
"Which username did I use?"
"Do they want my email address or my nickname?"
"Which password did I use?"
"What was my favorite vegetable when I created this account?"
Nothing wrecks a great user experience like a login form. Our password rules make it hard to remember what we've used, and stupid security questions lock us out of our accounts. And none of these security gymnastics actually prevent our personal information from leaking into the world. (In fact, we often inadvertently make it easier.)
If it's not usable, it's not secure. Unusable authentication systems are a bellwether of poor end-to-end experience. Once you've frustrated a user with their account creation or session authentication, it's extremely hard to win them back.
Security isn't sexy, but when we get it right, we reduce risk and increase user satisfaction. In this entertaining presentation, Jared will explain how to make authentication design a top priority in your experience architecture. He'll show you where the real risks are and why you shouldn't trust others to handle your design's security elegantly.
Jared will walk you through:
How to best protect your users without making them frustrated.
How Amazon reduces fraud and makes money with a multi-state security model.
How to keep the Paranoids at bay without degrading the user experience.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Peter Mager, p.mager@computer.org
Web Programming in Python with Django
Chelsea Voss
| Feb/01 | Wed | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: Familiarity with Python
If you've learned Python, it's a simple jump from there to being able to create websites! Come learn how to get started on web programming from the very basics; we'll assume zero knowledge of anything but Python. We'll cover how to set up a Django website using both MIT Scripts and Heroku; feel free to bring your laptop and follow along with setup yourself as I demonstrate.
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Chelsea Voss, sipb-iap17-django@mit.edu
You Can't Spell API without IAP - An Exploration of MIT's Many APIs
Amber Bennoui, Systems Analyst, Steve Billington, DevOps Engineer
| Jan/25 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 2-105 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 45 participants
APIs are everywhere these days, powering your favorite websites and mobile applications. APIs are great for integrating and updating data in a more streamlined way and can be made relatively easily with the right resources. While using an API may seem like a daunting task, it can be as simple as visiting a website.
In this seminar, we'll learn about what APIs are available, both within the MIT community, and in the larger Internet. Techniques for integrating these APIs into your websites or other projects will be discussed, and some sample code will be provided. If time permits, we'll also talk a bit about how you would go about writing your own API to make your data or service available to the larger MIT community.
Reserve your spot at developer.mit.edu/iap-api
Sponsor(s): Information Systems & Technology
Contact: Amber Bennoui, W92-254G, 617 324-6573, BENNOUI@MIT.EDU
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