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First AI + Education Summit is an international push for โAI fluencyโ
This summer, 350 participants came to MIT to dive into a question that is, so far, outpacing answers: How can education still create opportunities for all when digital literacy is no longer enough โ a world in which students now need to have AI fluency? Theย AI + Education Summit was hosted by theย MIT RAISE Initiative…
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The power of App Inventor: Democratizing possibilities for mobile applications
In 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 wouldnโt be able to install applications that Apple itself hadnโt vetted, at least not without breaking Appleโs terms of service. That business decision, however, left…
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Artificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has awarded seed grants to seven projects that are exploring how artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction can be leveraged to enhance modern work spaces to achieve better management and higher productivity. Funded by Andrew W. Houston โ05 and Dropbox Inc., the projects are intended to be interdisciplinary…