UpTrend, a mobile app focused on employment access for youth of color, won last weekend’s Thriving Cities Innovation Showcase + Hackathon. The hackathon aimed to tackle issues facing the Black ...

As hackathon co-chair Jake Chen, Ph.D., associate director of the Informatics Institute, shared in his keynote talk, cancer has the attention of bioinformaticists and data scientists. “Research on ...

What did you learn during the Hackathon? When Quality Assurance (QA) teams test an app or service, determining what to test can feel like solving a puzzle. Developers and QA typically collaborate to ...

A 48-hour hackathon at Butler University next month will offer participants more than $100,000 in prizes for projects focused on sports-related applications for 5G technology. The free event takes ...

The VR Hackathon hacks in progress at the University of Washington last weekend. The Seattle VR Hackathon was held this past weekend in the University of Washington’s Center for Education and Research ...

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Participants formed groups to turn their ideas into a reality, gained feedback from entrepreneurship mentors and competed for prizes this weekend. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It all ...

Cincinnati officials are launching a global search for innovative ideas to increase recycling. Council Member Liz Keating announced the second "hackathon" contest, funded with $20,000 in the current ...

A two-day event run internally at Seek began the implementation of dozens of ideas that the company hopes to put into production in the coming weeks and months. Hackathons - short but intensive ...

Companies hold code hackathons to help build team spirit, learn new skills and even create valuable products. If the company has offices around the globe, some careful scheduling can create an ...