tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/190369000 2008-05-14 15:22:27 -0400 EECS <p>Four MIT undergraduates shared a $25k prize as round one winners in Google's Android Developer Challenge, a worldwide open competition for software developers based on Google's Android software stack for mobile applications.</p><p>Clare Bayley '10, Carter Jernigan '08, Jasper Lin '08, and Christina Wright '08 were awarded the prize for their term project in Course VI class 6.087/6.081: Building Mobile Applications with Android. This experimental class, taught by EECS Prof. Hal Abelson with the aid of IS&amp;T's mobile devices platform project manager Andrew Yu, was unique in its use of professional (volunteer) application developers from the Boston software developer community as mentors. </p><p>Eric Carlson of ConnectedBits was the mentor for the winning 'Locale' project team. Locale was one of 50 winning projects selected on May 9 from a field of 1800 entries. As round 1 winners, the MIT students are now eligible to compete for higher levels in the Developer Challenge--leading to prizes of up to $275 thousand. </p> 665 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/189394840 2009-07-28 09:39:45 -0400 MIT Libraries Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to use the free open source LibX toolbar to search for books in the MIT collections. 225 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/188776300 2009-07-28 12:40:14 -0400 MIT Libraries Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to use the free open source LibX toolbar to search for articles. 228 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/187666080 2009-08-14 15:43:02 -0400 MIT Libraries Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video explains the difference between a search engine like Google and article databases that the Libraries subscribe to. Search tips like truncation and using synonyms are also provided. Used in 3.091: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. 272 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/187331320 2009-08-26 14:11:08 -0400 MIT Libraries Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This is part 4 in a 4-part series on patent searching basics. Learn about four free online patent search tools: Google Patents, freepatentsonline.com, esp@cenet and the United States Patent and Trademark Office database (USPTO). PLEASE NOTE: the Google Patents database has changed significantly since this video was made - the video will be updated soon to reflect the changes. 330