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The MIT App Inventor program is an open source web platform for making apps that is backed by an MIT partnership with Google, and a decade of research. Professor Hal Abelson heads the team and has ...

Google App Inventor, a simplified tool for creating Android apps, has been taken over by MIT after Google shut down the service last year. MIT is still working on rolling out its version of the ...

But an app like the Ez School Bus Locator wasn’t created by computer scientists in Silicon Valley. It’s one of more than 3 million projects… App Inventor launches second iteration.

App Inventor — a Google cast-out that is now maintained by MIT — is a graphical tool that unlocks the power of an Android handset to those with the most basic of programming understanding.

TechCrunch has previously covered Google's App Inventor -- which is basically a WYSIWYG editor for creating Android apps -- but, up until this point, the program has been in closed beta. Well, my ...