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MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli

Posted by timothy on from the mind's-eye dept.

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).

4 of 154 comments (clear)

  1. How easy IS it? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can it be done while getting a blow job? That's the the real question.

    1. Re:How easy IS it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Why is Stevie Wonder always smiling? Because he doesn't know that he's black!

  2. Fr0s7 pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    big pIcture. What way. It used to be

  3. Re:The Cow pat model by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First, they need to develop some system that alerts you to misspellings.