CML co-director Hal Abelson, a driving force behind the development of App Inventor, both at Google and MIT, has been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with the Karl V. Karlstom Outstanding Educator Award for his contributions to computer science education. Abelson is the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and co-chair of the MIT Council on Educational Technology.
In the News
A recent article in Education Week details how after-school programs geared toward mobile-app development offer appealing ways to academically engage students in technical and entrepreneurial exercises.
June 8, 2012 -- Madrid
UNED, the Center for Virtual Higher Education, Telefonica and Banco Santander Learning Services signed a collaboration agreement with the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish a massive open online community in Spain and Latin America. Thus was born the first Ibero-American community open and free of digital entrepreneurship.
This initiative is groundbreaking online educational innovation in Spain, created with the aim of extending to all Spanish-speaking Latin American communities. This first edition, which will begin next academic year will be dedicated to teaching programming mobile applications with software created by the MIT Media Lab: App Inventor. This training will be complemented by technology entrepreneurship skills to enable students to market their developments at the end of the course.