Web development

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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