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 ...
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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 ...
Esther Jang, a graduate student at the University of Washington, pitches at a recent Urban Resilience Hackathon at the UW. (Chuck Wolfe Photo) Editor’s note: Chuck Wolfe participated in this hackathon ...
Fashion brands, which have turned to hackathons to come up with new tech innovations, are now targeting their efforts to come up with solutions centred around sustainability. Companies including ...
The pandemic has made it almost impossible for organisations to run in-person hackathon events, where groups of developers can work together on an idea, eat pizza and drink beer. Discussing how the ...
Hackathons are an exercise in turning abstract ideas into tangible products. This is the same for startups, too: While tons of people have great ideas, founders are distinguished by their ability to ...