Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Fall Semester, 2008
Building mobile applications
Under construction
Also see the Spring 2008 version of the course.Building Mobile Applications was an experimental
course offered in fall 2008 by the MIT Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science in cooperation
with the MIT Media Lab, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and
with MIT's Information and Technology organization. The course was
taught by Prof. Hal Abelson (EECS), Prof. Sandy Pentland (Media Arts
and Sciences), and Prof. Eric Klopfer (DUSP), with the assistance of Andrew Yu,
manager of IS&T's mobile devices platform project, and Luis Sarmenta
from the MIT Media Lab. The course focused
on how to pick a project idea and rapidly bring it to fruition through
the prototype phase.
Students worked in project teams. One noteworthy feature of the
course was its use of mentors, professional application developers
from the Boston-area software developer community who volunteered to
work with the teams. We are deeply grateful to our team mentors:
Hitesh Bajaj, Eric Carlson, Iolanthe Chronis, Isaac De La Pena Ambite,
Chris Felknor, Kathryn Fialkowski, Wendy Fong, Maryam Kamvar, Taemie
Kim, Anmol Madan, Rich Miner, Dave Mitchell, Paul Oka, Joe Onorato,
Steve Strassmann, Rajeev Surati, Paul Wisner, and John Wolfe.
The class ended with a public presentation on December 12, which was attended
by the press, local industry, and technology venture funders. Here
are videos of the presentations:
