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Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities DevFeed: [Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Gitana Savage | MIT News correspondent Published: 2026-09-01T04:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [digital](), [context]() Tags: [artificial-intelligence](), [assistive-technology](), [child-welfare](), [communities](), [digital](), [engineering-systems](), [graduate-postdoctoral](), [ila-kumar](), [lifelong-kindergarten](), [media-lab](), [mental-health](), [mit-graduate-students](), [profile](), [psychology](), [school-of-architecture-and-planning](), [students](), [tech-for-good](), [technology](), [technology-and-society]() ### AI overview MIT PhD student Ila Kumar researches community-based design, involving young people who have experienced childhood trauma in shaping digital technologies intended to support healing, connection, independence, and well-being. ### Source excerpt The PhD student works to give young people an active role in shaping digital technologies that can support their own well-being. ## WordPress.com Education launches free classroom plans for teachers and students DevFeed: [WordPress.com Education launches free classroom plans for teachers and students]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: L. Jeffrey Zeldman Published: 2026-08-17T15:12:09Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Jeffrey Zeldman]() Topics: [WordPress](), [Website]() Tags: [automattic](), [blogs-and-blogging](), [career](), [community](), [courseware](), [creativity](), [education](), [free](), [free-software](), [launches](), [learning](), [open-source](), [platforms](), [plugins](), [publishing](), [sftp](), [software](), [ssh](), [students](), [teaching](), [websites](), [wordpress]() ### AI overview Automattic has launched WordPress.com Education, a free classroom product that gives students WordPress.com domains, optional .blog or .art domain names, and plugin support. Teachers can provide access free for the first year without entering payment details. ### Source excerpt Meet WordPress.com Education, a new, free product for teachers and students. The post For students who make websites appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents. ## MIT's JARVIS Challenge tests AI copilots in jet-engine design and manufacturing DevFeed: [MIT's JARVIS Challenge tests AI copilots in jet-engine design and manufacturing]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Published: 2026-07-14T18:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [AI Development](), [Artificial Intelligence](), [Hardware](), [Software Engineering](), [Large language models (LLMs)]() Tags: [3-d-printing](), [aeronautical-and-astronautical-engineering](), [aerospace](), [ai-and-rapid-prototyping](), [ai-copilots](), [ai-native-engineer](), [aircraft](), [andreea-bobu](), [artificial-intelligence](), [chatgpt](), [classes-and-programs](), [claude](), [contests-and-academic-competitions](), [design](), [design-build-test-cycle](), [education-teaching-academics](), [engineering](), [gas-turbine-aero-engine](), [generative-ai](), [hardware](), [independent-activities-period](), [jet-engines](), [large-language-models-llms](), [lincoln-laboratory](), [logistics](), [machine-learning](), [manufacturing](), [masha-folk](), [mechanical-engineering](), [mit-aeroastro](), [mit-gas-turbine-laboratory](), [mit-iap](), [mit-jarvis-challenge](), [mit-lincoln-laboratory](), [mit-meche](), [mit-motorsports-team](), [mit-parley](), [mit-rocket-team](), [robotics](), [school-of-engineering](), [stem-education](), [students](), [undergraduate](), [zachary-cordero](), [zoltan-spakovszky]() ### AI overview MIT's JARVIS Challenge asked undergraduate teams to design, fabricate, assemble, and test small gas turbine aero engines with AI as their primary engineering partner. The challenge found that AI could accelerate parts of safety-critical hardware engineering, while engineering judgment remained essential and manufacturing was the main rate-limiting step. ### Source excerpt MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI's usefulness in developing high-performance aerospace systems. ## MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America DevFeed: [MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2026-07-01T20:30:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](), [Physical AI](), [Learning](), [Machine learning]() Tags: [ai](), [artificial-intelligence](), [curiosity](), [education-teaching-academics](), [funding](), [health](), [learning](), [physical-ai](), [president-sally-kornbluth](), [research](), [students](), [teaching](), [teamwork](), [university]() ### AI overview At a Washington Post Live panel, MIT President Sally Kornbluth discussed curiosity-driven research, university preparation for an AI-enabled future, and a human-centric approach to AI education. She emphasized foundational STEM knowledge, ethical and civic education, physical AI, collaboration, and AI as an augmentation tool. ### Source excerpt During a "Washington Post Live" panel discussion with ASU President Michael Crow, President Sally Kornbluth explored how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America's rapidly changing technological landscape. ## Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program's initial students DevFeed: [Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program's initial students]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Dan Pecci | MIT Music and Theater Arts Published: 2026-06-29T19:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Computing](), [Artificial Intelligence]() Tags: [agustin-rayo](), [ai](), [ai-in-music](), [algorithms](), [anna-huang](), [artificial-intelligence](), [arts](), [electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs](), [electronics](), [eran-egozy](), [event](), [graduate-postdoctoral](), [grisha-coleman](), [hip-hop](), [human-computer-interaction](), [machine-learning](), [mark-rau](), [media-lab](), [mit-class-21m-369-569-tuning-attention-creative-practices-in-movement-sound-and-ai](), [mit-music-and-theater-arts](), [mit-music-technology-and-computation-mtc-graduate-program](), [mit-music-technology-research-showcase](), [mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing](), [mit-shass](), [mit-soe](), [music](), [music-and-theater-arts](), [music-in-eeg-signals](), [music-technology](), [network](), [paris-smaragdis](), [paula-hammond](), [performance](), [performances](), [real-time](), [research](), [school-of-engineering](), [school-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences](), [special-events-and-guest-speakers](), [students]() ### AI overview MIT's Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program held its inaugural research showcase on May 13, featuring presentations and performances by its initial students, PhD students, and faculty. Projects included AI-assisted piano improvisation visualization, sound art using noisy network communication, dance-generated music, and EEG-based musical tune identification. ### Source excerpt Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, "In Search of Human-AI Resonance," to a capacity crowd. ## MIT in the media: For the future of tech, "Massachusetts can absolutely lead" DevFeed: [MIT in the media: For the future of tech, "Massachusetts can absolutely lead"]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2026-06-18T04:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](), [AI Strategy](), [Robotics]() Tags: [ai](), [alumni-ae](), [applied-ai](), [articles](), [artificial-intelligence](), [biotechnology](), [cambridge-boston-and-region](), [computer-science-and-technology](), [courses](), [energy](), [faculty](), [funding](), [health](), [manufacturing](), [president-sally-kornbluth](), [quantum-computing](), [quantum-technologies](), [research](), [robotics](), [startup](), [startups](), [students](), [tech](), [technology-and-society]() ### AI overview MIT's research, AI initiatives, online courses, and entrepreneurship programs are highlighted in coverage of Massachusetts' technology ecosystem and its potential for continued leadership. ### Source excerpt Leaders, faculty across MIT discuss fostering innovation and talent in Greater Boston in special series of articles published alongside the outlet's annual list of 'Tech Power Players' ## The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics DevFeed: [The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2026-05-11T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Susam Pal]() Topics: [Mathematics](), [Math and Logic]() Tags: [advanced](), [mathematics](), [opinion](), [students](), [theory]() ### AI overview The article argues that pedagogy remains a serious problem in advanced mathematics. It focuses on graduate-level textbooks whose proofs are often presented as high-level outlines, leaving students and even professional mathematicians to reconstruct omitted intermediate steps. It advocates explanations that are correct, complete, and accessible to reasonably motivated students. ### Source excerpt It is a commonly held opinion that educational institutions could do more to improve the pedagogy of mathematics. This is especially applicable to primary and secondary schools, where students are first exposed to mathematics as a formal subject, along with other new subjects. Poor exposition can turn students away from mathematics for a lifetime. Only the highly motivated ones continue to engage with the subject. This is very unfortunate because mathematics is a beautiful subject and it is filled with wonder. It also teaches rigour in reasoning, clarity of thought and the discipline of constructing arguments from first principles to obtain intricate and often beautiful results. What is perhaps less known is that pedagogy is a problem even for graduate-level mathematics students and professional mathematicians. The proofs in many graduate-level mathematics textbooks are, in my humble opinion, not really proofs at all. They are closer to high-level outlines of proofs. The authors simply do not show their work. The student then has to put in an extraordinary amount of effort to understand and justify each line. Sometimes a 10-line argument in a textbook might expand into a 10-page proof if the student really wants to convince themselves that the argument works. I am not a mathematician, but out of personal interest, I have worked with professional mathematicians in the past to help refine notes that explain certain intermediate steps in textbooks (for example, Galois Theory by Stewart, in a specific case). I was surprised to find that it was not just me who found the intermediate steps of certain proofs obscure. Even professional mathematicians who had studied the subject for much of their lives found them obscure. It took us two days of working together to untangle a complicated argument and present it in a way that satisfied three properties: correctness, completeness and accessibility to a reasonably motivated student. There is a reason why jokes like 'proof by obv ## My experience with the GitHub Foundations Certification process DevFeed: [My experience with the GitHub Foundations Certification process]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Jake Lee Published: 2024-11-16T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Jake Lee's Programming Blog]() Topics: [GitHub](), [Learning](), [Git]() Tags: [certifications](), [education](), [github](), [microsoft](), [students]() ### AI overview A personal review of studying for and taking the GitHub Foundations Certification, including its student offering, covered topics, available study guides, and experience with Microsoft's Learning Path. ### Source excerpt Did you know GitHub offer paid certifications? They do! The first of these is "GitHub Foundations", offered for free to students, here's my somewhat rocky experience of studying & taking the exam. ## A bridge between the schools and the industry -- Design Club DevFeed: [A bridge between the schools and the industry -- Design Club]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Cláudia Published: 2023-03-13T17:19:49Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Blog - Bloco]() Topics: [digital](), [App](), [Mobile](), [Software]() Tags: [design](), [digital](), [education](), [mobile](), [partnership](), [students](), [training](), [workshops]() ### AI overview Bloco describes its Design Club workshops, which connect schools with the design industry and help students develop digital literacy. The free sessions use hands-on activities, including designing a helpful mobile app, and are delivered through partnerships with educational organizations. ### Source excerpt The design clubs are promoted to bridge the gap between schools and the industry and develop digital literacy. The workshops offer a glimpse of what is working in the design industry and aim to attract young people to learn more about design and technology. We hope to make an impact on the future of these students. ## Applied Threat Modeling at BlackHat 2021 DevFeed: [Applied Threat Modeling at BlackHat 2021]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Adam Published: 2021-06-28T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog]() Topics: [Learning](), [class]() Tags: [blackhat](), [exercise](), [interactive](), [skills](), [students](), [teaching]() ### AI overview An announcement for a hands-on Applied Threat Modeling class at Black Hat USA 2021. The class will teach threat modeling through interactive exercises covering four core questions and an end-to-end exercise. ### Source excerpt At Blackhat USA, I'll be teaching Applied Threat Modeling. ## Can Training Work Remotely? DevFeed: [Can Training Work Remotely?]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Adam Published: 2021-04-13T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog]() Topics: [Learning]() Tags: [exercise](), [remote](), [students](), [training](), [video](), [work]() ### AI overview The article considers whether distributed or remote training can work as well as in-person training, especially for threat modeling. It compares the benefits and drawbacks of each format, emphasizing hands-on exercises, peer and instructor feedback, flexible exercise timing, and the advantages of video lectures that participants can replay or speed up. ### Source excerpt I get this question a lot: Can distributed/remote training work as well as in person? Especially for threat modeling, where there's a strong expectation that training involves whiteboards... ## Threat Modeling Training at Blackhat 2020 DevFeed: [Threat Modeling Training at Blackhat 2020]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Adam Published: 2020-03-02T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog]() Topics: [Learning]() Tags: [blackhat](), [class](), [exercise](), [interactive](), [skills](), [students](), [training]() ### AI overview The article announces hands-on threat modeling training at Black Hat 2020. The interactive class covers threat modeling steps, common traps, four key questions, and an end-to-end exercise, with sessions scheduled for August 1-2 and August 3-4. ### Source excerpt At Blackhat this summer, I'll be offering threat modeling training at Blackhat. Last year, these sold out quickly, so don't wait! ## What to do with your computer science career DevFeed: [What to do with your computer science career]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Guido van Rossum (noreply@blogger.com) Published: 2018-11-26T17:13:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Guido van Rossum]() Topics: [Computer science](), [Software Engineering](), [Development](), [Web Development]() Tags: [advice](), [career](), [css](), [developers](), [html](), [software-development](), [software-engineering](), [students]() ### AI overview An opinion piece offering computer science students career advice about choosing between conventional software development jobs and entrepreneurship. It argues that 9-to-5 software development can be rewarding, cautions against repetitive entry-level web development work, and says software engineering will continue to involve new problems as repetitive tasks become automated. ### Source excerpt I regularly receive questions from students in the field of computer science looking for career advice. Here's an answer I wrote to one of them. It's not comprehensive or anything, but I thought people might find it interesting. [A question about whether to choose a 9-5 job or be an entrepreneur] The question about "9-5" vs. "entrepreneur" is a complex one -- not everybody can be a successful entrepreneur (who would do the work? :-) and not everybody has the temperament for it. For me personally it was never an option -- there are vast parts of management and entrepreneurship that I wouldn't enjoy doing, such as hiring (I hate interviewing and am bad at it) and firing (too emotionally draining -- even just giving negative feedback is hard for me). Pitching ideas to investors is another thing that I'd rather do without. If any of that resonates with you, you may be better off not opting for entrepreneurship -- the kind of 9-5 software development jobs I have had are actually (mostly) very rewarding: I get to write software that gets used by hundreds or thousands of other developers (or millions in the case of Python), and those other developers in turn use my software to produce product that get uses by hundreds of thousands or, indeed hundreds of millions of users. Not every 9-5 job is the same! For me personally, I don't like the product stuff (since usually that means it's products I have no interest in using myself), but "your mileage may vary" (as they say in the US). Just try to do better than an entry-level web development job; that particular field (editing HTML and CSS) is likely to be automated away, and would feel repetitive to me. [A question about whether AI would make human software developers redundant (not about what I think of the field of AI as a career choice)] Regarding AI, I'm not worried at all. The field is focused on automating boring, repetitive tasks like driving a car or recognizing faces, which humans can learn to do easily but find boring ## How Students and New Developers Can Build Skills Through Open Source DevFeed: [How Students and New Developers Can Build Skills Through Open Source]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2015-08-31T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Radek Pazdera]() Topics: [Open Source](), [Programming](), [Git](), [Maintainers](), [code reviews](), [Documentation]() Tags: [beginner](), [career](), [code-reviews](), [collaboration](), [contributors](), [developers](), [git](), [learning](), [open-source](), [portfolio](), [students]() ### AI overview This opinion article argues that students, career switchers, and other newcomers can use open source projects to practice software development and build portfolios. It recommends starting with manageable tasks such as fixing issues, refactoring functions, and addressing TODOs while learning teamwork, Git, code review, and unfamiliar codebases. It also encourages maintainers to make projects more welcoming to beginners. ### Source excerpt I build software products and write on the Internet. ## Student discounts for Unity Pro and free Autodesk products DevFeed: [Student discounts for Unity Pro and free Autodesk products]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Adam Tuliper (noreply@blogger.com) Published: 2013-09-18T06:06:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Adam Tuliper]() Topics: [Unity](), [Game engine](), [3D]() Tags: [3d](), [code](), [deals](), [free](), [pricing](), [students](), [unity]() ### AI overview The article highlights student pricing for Unity Pro and free access to Autodesk products including Maya, 3ds Max, and Softimage. It notes that the Unity offer ends on September 30, 2013. ### Source excerpt I've been doing a ton of Unity work lately, working on my latest stints with 'DinoBurger' or 'Zombie Worlds'. I wish I were still a student - there's some awesome deals out there for them. Are you a student? Interested in developing games and/or 3D content? There's a couple great deals for you. Unity Pro - One of the most powerful and easy to use game engines that allows you to drag/drop and write code for objects. Students get SERIOUSLY reduced pricing through studica.com but be sure to check out the flyer here. Note that this deal ends 09/30/2013 AutoDesk products - You can get Maya, 3DS Max, SoftImage, and more _free_ while you are a student. Check out the student center here Enjoy!!! ## A critique of introductory programming education and the loss of exploratory problem-solving DevFeed: [A critique of introductory programming education and the loss of exploratory problem-solving]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2012-03-15T01:01:07Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Jeremy Kun]() Topics: [Programming](), [Python](), [Learning]() Tags: [calculus](), [education](), [java](), [learning](), [mathematics](), [programming](), [python](), [students](), [teaching]() ### AI overview The author contrasts their exploratory early programming experiences with an introductory Python course focused on following directions, manipulating data, and implementing routine exercises. They argue that students are not given enough opportunities to solve meaningful problems or experience the satisfaction of programming. ### Source excerpt By the end, the breadth and depth of our collective knowledge was far beyond what anyone could expect from any high school course in any subject. Education Versus Exploration I'm a lab TA for an introductory Python programming course this semester, and it's been...depressing. I remember my early days of programming, when the possibilities seemed endless and adding new features to my programs was exciting and gratifying, and I brimmed with pride at every detail, and I boasted to my friends of the amazing things I did, and I felt powerful. ## Before Python DevFeed: [Before Python]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Guido van Rossum (noreply@blogger.com) Published: 2011-07-25T18:17:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Guido van Rossum]() Topics: [Programming](), [Programming language](), [Python](), [Mathematics]() Tags: [computer](), [cpu-time](), [electronics](), [languages](), [mathematics](), [network](), [personal](), [programming](), [programming-languages](), [python](), [students](), [university]() ### AI overview The author recounts his early experiences with electronics, mathematics at university, punch-card computing, and early programming before Python. He reflects on how programming languages have changed and how programmers may write software in the future. ### Source excerpt This morning I had a chat with the students at Google's CAPE program. Since I wrote up what I wanted to say I figured I might as well blog it here. Warning: this is pretty unedited (or else it would never be published :-). I'm posting it in my "personal" blog instead of the "Python history" blog because it mostly touches on my career before Python. Here goes. Have you ever written a computer program? Using which language? HTML Javascript Java Python C++ C Other - which? [It turned out the students had used a mixture of Scratch, App Inventor, and Processing. A few students had also used Python or Java.] Have you ever invented a programming language? :-) If you have programmed, you know some of the problems with programming languages. Have you ever thought about why programming isn't easier? Would it help if you could just talk to your computer? Have you tried speech recognition software? I have. It doesn't work very well yet. :-) How do you think programmers will write software 10 years from now? Or 30? 50? Do you know how programmers worked 30 years ago? I do. I was born in Holland in 1956. Things were different. I didn't know what a computer was until I was 18. However, I tinkered with electronics. I built a digital clock. My dream was to build my own calculator. Then I went to university in Amsterdam to study mathematics and they had a computer that was free for students to use! (Not unlimited though. We were allowed to use something like one second of CPU time per day. :-) I had to learn how to use punch cards. There were machines to create them that had a keyboard. The machines were as big as a desk and made a terrible noise when you hit a key: a small hole was punched in the card with a huge force and great precision. If you made a mistake you had to start over. I didn't get to see the actual computer for several more years. What we had in the basement of the math department was just an end point for a network that ran across the city. There were card readers a