building digital health

Discover, engage, and build at Building for Digital Health 2021 from February 1st-7th. The free, virtual event features a series of 90-min tech talks and a 3-day hackathon. Learn from Google Cloud engineers and discover the capabilities of open source frameworks and Cloud infrastructure that enable advancements in medicine. Organized by MIT Hacking Medicine in partnership with Google Cloud and supported by Apple Health.

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MIT Covid app
CSAIL article

When schools around the world closed their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the team behind MIT App Inventor — a web-based, visual-programming environment that allows children to develop applications for smartphones and tablets — began thinking about how they could not only help keep children engaged and learning, but also empower them to create new tools to address the pandemic.

work of the future
Work of the Future Event of the Year
The 4th annual Congress was a virtual event that featured the final report from the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. Hosted by MIT's Task Force on Work of the Future, CSAIL, and Initiative on the Digital Economy, this year's Congress highlighted research findings from the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future's final report released in November 2020. Given the rapidly changing environment brought on by Covid-19, this topic is more important and relevant than ever.