In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

The App Inventor for Android is powerful, easy, and fun. In fact, it's a bit of a gateway drug to hardcore Android programming.

The App Inventor source code was released by Google and MIT yesterday as part of a three-month project to create a full-fledged App Inventor server for public use.

According to Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and co-director of the Center for Mobile Learning, based at the MIT Media Lab, MIT App Inventor 2 ...