Web development

Kids coding in the cloudMIT Media Lab launches new generation of Scratch online community.

Berners-Lee wins first Queen Elizabeth Prize for EngineeringHonored for inventing the World Wide Web

Daniel Weitzner receives IAPP Privacy Leadership AwardLauded for work and leadership in the development of Internet public policy

MIT Connect: explore the world of MIT through social mediaWant to know what’s up at MIT? Check out MIT Connect, an innovative social media portal recently launched by MIT’s Communication Production Services in collaboration with the News Office.

Removing a pain point for financial aid students and staffOnline document tracking and financial aid award letters implemented for 2012.

UAAP rolls out new website and system for IAP 2013Community members can easily browse Independent Activities Period activities by sponsor, category or date.

MIT OpenCourseWare to launch improved site designNew features help visitors to better discover and access MIT course materials.

3 Questions: A Web for everyoneJudy Brewer leads the Web Accessibility Initiative, which developed standards that help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.

Making Web applications more efficientA new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.

Making it easier to build secure Web applicationsNew programming tools handle security checks automatically but should prove much more intuitive than their predecessors.

CourseRoad, Dormbase win 2012 iCampus Student PrizesCourseRoad named grand prize winner; Dormbase named runner-up

Disruptive innovation — in educationFor Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it.

Reif, Grimson: MITx aims to enhance on-campus educationNew online courses add value to MIT’s residential program, provost and chancellor tell students.

Redesigned with you in mind: IS&T unveils its responsive website

First course offered by MITx beginsMore than 90,000 people have registered for 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics

MIT faculty speak at the World Economic Forum in DavosTalks explore the mind/machine interface and the science of predicting the economy, among other topics.

In the World: Fostering entrepreneurship in developing nationsIn 11 years, MIT’s Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI) program has trained more than 1,500 budding entrepreneurs in seven countries.

Participants give kudos to online registration pilotThe paper-based process underwent a sea change this fall.

IS&T renews its contract with lynda.comMIT faculty, staff, and students can continue to freely access lynda.com’s catalog of 900-plus courses.

Sharing wisdom, teacher to teacherMIT math instructors have developed a tool to help educators get to ‘best practices’ and preserve them for posterity.

You can take it with youA new system lets you transfer open applications between a computer and a cellphone simply by pointing the phone’s camera at the computer’s screen.

IS&T's DCAD team enhances its service modelDCAD can help you in all aspects of your website project, from needs analysis, design and development, to project management and support.

Joichi Ito named director of MIT Media LabTechnology entrepreneur and Internet freedom advocate succeeds Frank Moss.

MIT upsets WPI to grab second NEWMAC championshipTashman leads MIT to third consecutive bid for NCAA Division III tournament.

The MIT roots of Google’s new softwareGoogle’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.

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