In the
@BostonGlobe, columnist Scott Kirsner highlights four projects he considers to be among MIT's most influential contributions from the past 25 years—the
@Scratch programming language and Computer Clubhouse Network, both developed in the Lifelong Kindergarten group led by Media Lab Prof.
@mres; the Fab Lab Network created by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT's Center for Bits Atoms (CBA), and the late civil rights activist Mel King; and the FIRST robotics competitions, which were inspired by the work of the late MIT Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers.
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ALT Professors Mitch Resnick (left) and Neil Gershenfeld site in front of a white wall decorated with curved, clear plastic windows containing brightly colored LEGO bricks. Credit: David L. Ryan/Globe Staff