Hackathon

  • Stony Brook Hackathon Inspires Cutting-Edge Student-Built Technologies

    Stony Brook Hackathon Inspires Cutting-Edge Student-Built Technologies

    Over the President’s Day weekend, Stony Brook University welcomed 174 students to the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology to compete in a 40-hour IoT and security hackathon. The event, called Hack@CEWIT, featured student programmers and designers from all over the U.S. A prize money of $7,000 was disbursed to the competitors who… Read More

  • University of Arkansas’ First Blockchain Hackathon Surpasses Expectations

    University of Arkansas’ First Blockchain Hackathon Surpasses Expectations

    Image – Courtesy of the Sam M. Walton College of Business Where was the cotton grown in the jeans you are wearing? Where was the chicken raised that you will use in that grilled chicken salad tonight? Answers to both questions can readily be had through the use of blockchain, as students quickly discovered at… Read More

  • Singapore University of Technology and Design Students Win ‘Fake News’ Hackathon for Their 3-Pronged Solution

    Singapore University of Technology and Design Students Win ‘Fake News’ Hackathon for Their 3-Pronged Solution

    A team of five students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design recently won a “fake news” hackathon for their 3-pronged approach to tackling a problem that has dominated the media since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The hackathon was organized by Google, the Media Literacy Council, the National University of Singapore, and the… Read More

  • Functional Fabric Hackathon Inspires MIT and Drexel University Students’ Winning Ideas to Help Soldiers and Disaster Victims

    Functional Fabric Hackathon Inspires MIT and Drexel University Students’ Winning Ideas to Help Soldiers and Disaster Victims

    Students from MIT and areas around Boston competed in a three-day hackathon to design functional fabric technology to aid soldiers, first responders, and victims of disaster. The hackathon was sponsored by the MIT Innovation Initiative, the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America Institute, and MD5, a partnership between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and a… Read More

  • NYU Abu Dhabi Researchers Develop New ‘Logic-Locked’ Unhackable Computer Chip Technology

    NYU Abu Dhabi Researchers Develop New ‘Logic-Locked’ Unhackable Computer Chip Technology

    Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) Design for Excellence (Dfx) lab have developed a new unhackable computer chip technology with security features implemented at the hardware level. Chips that are “logic-locked” are not vulnerable to hacking, and cannot be copied. Cyber security attacks have become rampant over the past 20 years. In the… Read More

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