MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli

coondoggie writes "Computer users with rudimentary skills will be able to program via screen shots rather than lines of code with a new graphical scripting language called Sikuli that was devised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a basic understanding of Python, people can write programs that incorporate screen shots of graphical user interface (GUI) elements to automate computer work. One example given by the authors of a paper about Sikuli is a script that notifies a person when his bus is rounding the corner so he can leave in time to catch it." Here's a video demo of the technology, and a paper explaining the concept (PDF).pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/21/215212/MIT-Offers-Picture-Centric-Programming-To-the-Masses-With-Sikuli?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/21/215212"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/21/215212/MIT-Offers-Picture-Centric-Programming-To-the-Masses-With-Sikuli?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EkOV0hX-Uq_ZmnA9ANiAMjfik7w/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EkOV0hX-Uq_ZmnA9ANiAMjfik7w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EkOV0hX-Uq_ZmnA9ANiAMjfik7w/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EkOV0hX-Uq_ZmnA9ANiAMjfik7w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/fPNfv7kn8Vg" height="1" width="1"/

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