[OLPC_Boston] article: The MIT roots of Google’s new software

[Michelle Kwak]

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/android-abelson-0819.html


Begel’s system influenced the software for Mindstorms, and Resnick and Klopfer have continued to expand on its central ideas, for two different projects. Klopfer’s is a 3-D adaptation of StarLogo called StarLogo TNG, which can be used to build video games, among other things. Resnick’s is Scratch, a successful educational system, launched in 2007, that allows children to design their own interactive stories and games for the Web.