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Feb 1

The Indian language Telugu has roughly 95 million speakers worldwide. But Indian students still lack STEM resources in their native languages — so an MIT researcher wrote the first original CS paper in Telugu: bit.ly/3HLgQ1K

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Today would have been the 80th birthday of Professor Patrick Winston, who passed away in 2019 after directing MIT’s AI lab for 25 years. Here are his complete video lectures for 6.034, which have been watched nearly 5 million times: bit.ly/PHWvideos

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Feb 4

Happy birthday to programming-language pioneer Ken Thompson. 💻 designer of Unix 💻 inventor of B (predecessor to C) 💻 co-inventor of Google's Go bit.ly/2XyGsbP

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"Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.” — Damian Conway

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Jan 31

Happy birthday to Python creator Guido van Rossum. The open source language was named after comedy troupe Monty Python: bit.ly/2B8R7h6

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Jan 28

The data-science hierarchy of needs. bit.ly/3t91E50 (created by

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Jan 27

“The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.” — Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix

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Jan 26

When programming languages were created: 1957: Fortran 1958: LISP 1959: #COBOL 1964: BASIC 1972: C 1978: SQL 1980: C++ 1991: Python 1993: R 1995: PHP, Java & JS 2001: C# 2009: Go 2014: Swift

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Jan 25

As the years go by... (comic v/

@_workchronicles

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Jan 24

The first Mac was released #otd in 1984: bit.ly/3H0PLEV Image v/Shutterstock

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Jan 23

Lung cancer is the No. 1 deadliest cancer in the world, yet many patients have never smoked. A new deep learning model can detect future lung cancer risk for these patients by analyzing image data — without help from a radiologist: bit.ly/3iU8xXZ

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“The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.” — Alan Cooper

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Jan 21

800 free computer science classes you can take online right now: bit.ly/800CSclasses

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It’s

signing off! Thank you for tuning in during my takeover 🤗 Please feel free to reach out if you’re interested in #AIEducation, #EdTech, or

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allows you to build apps simply by describing what you want it to do 🤯

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Jan 19

Introducing App Inventor Foundation, a new global #nonprofit empowering people of all backgrounds to create apps that improve lives and uplift communities! 🌍👩🏾‍💻📱💪

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“I realized that we can help the planet while helping ourselves as women to learn about technology.” High school girls in Mexico developed a carbon footprint tracking app through a workshop led by the App Inventor Foundation. appinventorfoundation.org/initiatives/hi

Three girls from India used

'Doctor Robo' adds value to rural healthcare

and

@arduino

to develop Doctor Robo: a robotic doctor that treats coughs, colds, and headaches! 🤖

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Three students from Dr BR Ambedkar Gurukulam-CoE grab attention for their innovative project Doctor Robo meets multipurpose needs of healthcare and prescribes medicinesSoon, the trio intends to

Jan 19

Super excited that Poland is teaching App Inventor across the country!

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Check out Poland's largest educational campaign of free programming workshops for students, featuring @MITAppInventor, @scratch, @ThePSF, and more!

Starting on February 4. twitter.com/NaukaEdukacja/…

Hi! It’s

with two questions: 💻 How did you first get started with #programming? 💡 What’s your favorite CS project you’ve worked on?

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If you’re interested in empowering young thinkers, dreamers, changemakers & doers to uplift their communities through technology, join us in our journey by: 📱 Following us on social media 💌 Sharing our posts 💵 Donating on our website (7/7)

In the past few years,

has collaborated with trusted organizations across the world to provide equitable access to STEM education, including

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We are constantly in awe of how students use

to address issues in their local communities. Take

@gitanjaliarao

for example. As a middle school student, she built an app that helped detect lead contamination in Flint, Michigan. 💧(5/N)

Girl holds a test tube of water in front of a stream. Shared with permission from Gitanjali Rao.

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Electronic water testing device paired with an app created with App Inventor by Gitanjali Rao. Shared with permission from Gitanjali Rao. Photo credit Google Positive Current: Search On Production

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We’re now raising seed funding for App Inventor Foundation! 💸 Seed funding will support infrastructure investments to sustain

’s future growth. This is a critical time to support a project that empowers students to use technology for meaningful change! (4/N)

A graph showing App Inventor usage statistics: 9.2 million users in 2022, 68 million apps created, across 200 countries, from 8 to 80 years old, 47% from developing countries.

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Seeing that

is far beyond the normal size of a research project, we decided to launch the App Inventor Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit incubated

. Its mission is to empower people of all backgrounds to create apps that uplift their communities 💪🏼 (3/N)

grew extremely quickly in the past 2 years. It’s run by a small team of 10 people in a lab

, yet reached 9.2 million people across 200 countries in the last year alone. This makes it the largest #edtech project currently hosted

@MIT

! 🤯 (2/N)

Pie chart of App Inventor users across the world. The highest user base is in the United States, with 13.8% of total users.

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We’re launching App Inventor Foundation, a new #nonprofit focused on CS+AI education and outreach, to amplify world-class research from

appinventorfoundation.org

into real-world impact! 🙌🏼🎓💻🌍 More details below ⤵️ appinventorfoundation.org (1/N)

App Inventor Foundation

Working on #AI #edtech research the past few years, I’ve seen

spread to all corners of the globe. I want to take App Inventor to the next level and increase accessibility to CS+AI education worldwide 🌍 Stay tuned for my next post on how I’m doing that! (7/7)

I stayed

for my Masters, where I used #Redis to develop cloud data tools for K-12 education. I enjoyed my research so much that I applied for a PhD, where I created a framework for #ML education and developed edtech tools for kids to explore #AI. (6/7)

When I got back to MIT, I was eager to keep working in edtech. I found the prof in charge of

and knocked on his door to ask how I could help. To my surprise, Hal invited me to be a research assistant in his lab through the

program! 🎉 (5/7)

AI pioneer #SeymourPapert said “children learn best when they are actively engaged in constructing something that has personal meaning to them.” I saw this firsthand when teaching

. My students were amazed that they could make apps with no prior experience!💡(4/7)

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One of my favorite memories in undergrad was teaching at a high school in Barcelona through

@MISTIatMIT

Global Teaching Labs! As a new teacher, I wanted to empower my students in computer science in my one month there. That’s when I stumbled upon

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Natalie Lao teaching high school students in Barcelona

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I was raised by my grandparents in Thailand & China. My grandma, a schoolteacher 👩🏻‍🏫, imparted in me the joys of learning and the importance of sharing knowledge with your community. I took these values with me when I stepped onto

@MIT

campus as an undergrad in

@MITEECS

. (2/7)

Natalie Lao as a child eating with her grandmother

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👋🏼 It’s

! Along with folks

, I’m launching a new #nonprofit to empower people across the globe to create apps that improve their lives and uplift their communities. Before telling you more, here’s how my research

and

led me here…(1/7)

Natalie Lao teaching a student App Inventor on a laptop

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Hi, this is

! For the next 2 days I’m taking over

’s social media. I’m a 3x MIT alum (BS ‘16, MEng ‘17, PhD ‘20) and I’ll be sharing more about an exciting new edtech #nonprofit I’m creating with folks

! AMA about #EdTech or #MIT💡🌎

MIT PhD Natalie Lao outside of the MIT Stata Center

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Jan 17

Free MIT videos & online materials from more than 2,400 courses, including intro classes in computer science, AI and algorithms. Browse our open CS courses here: bit.ly/39jH8DV (v/

@MITOCW

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Jan 15

Stata, from 125 feet.

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Jan 14

When Google's new translate feature is a game-changer. (credit: bit.ly/2FOvtT4)

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Jan 13

New algorithm enables artists to build free-form digital animations by combining centuries-old transportation theory with modern advancements in AI. Paper: bit.ly/3ILV2DX

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