A senior at Miami Dade College’s West Campus has programmed the Amazon Echo to help students in need of directions, department hours and other information.
Computer science student Andres Gutierrez tapped into Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice recognition service, on an Echo Dot using Node.js, a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Gutierrez had help from Pedro Santos, manager of the campus’s Media and Network Services department, where the student served as an intern earlier this year.