Category: School of Architecture and Planning
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The power of App Inventor: Democratizing possibilities for mobile applications
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in Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Education, teaching, academics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Global, History of MIT, History of science, K-12 education, Media Lab, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Online learning, Open access, Open source, Programming, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, STEM educationIn June 2007, Apple unveiled the first iPhone. But the company made a strategic decision about iPhone software: its new App Store would be a walled garden. An iPhone user wouldn’t be able to install applications that Apple itself hadn’t vetted, at least not without breaking Apple’s terms of service. That business decision, however, left…
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HPI-MIT design research collaboration creates powerful teams
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in Artificial Intelligence, Business and management, Cleaner industry, Climate change, Collaboration, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Cybersecurity, Design, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Environmental Solutions Initiative, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Machine Learning, Manufacturing, MIT Morningside Academy for Design, MIT Sloan School of Management, Renewable energy, Research, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, Startups, Supply chainsThe recent ransomware attack on ChangeHealthcare, which severed the network connecting health care providers, pharmacies, and hospitals with health insurance companies, demonstrates just how disruptive supply chain attacks can be. In this case, it hindered the ability of those providing medical services to submit insurance claims and receive payments. This sort of attack and other…