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The PennApps Hackathon was held this weekend at the University of Pennsylvania. The hackathon ran from 6pm Friday evening until this afternoon, with 30 some-odd teams rapidly building their apps. The hackathon was geared towards mobile app development, and participants were given a choice as to which platform they could opt to work on.
Later this month, long before the crunch of finals, dozens of local student software engineers will be pulling some all-nighters.
Not for a grade, of course. For cash.
The third PennApps competition, a bi-annual 48-hour hackathon, will blaze by at the Weiss Tech House during a weekend that will seem to disappear for those students crunching code.
This weekend, PennApps will be hosting an event to see what hackers can do with 40 hours, a challenge to create phone programs.
The PennApps Hackathon marathon will run for the third time from 8:00 p.m. Jan. 14 until noon on Jan. 16.
Though the organizers believe that Penn doesn’t receive enough credit for the skill of its hackers, PennApps organizer Alexey Komissarouk is confident that Penn hackers will hold their own against foreign competition. Other regional schools will be sending representatives to compete.
Last weekend at Weiss Tech House, the nerds from Dining Philosophers (Penn’s computer science club) showed us that computer programming can be COOL. With nothing but their brains (plus gadgets and gizmos aplenty), aspiring programmers spent the weekend competing in PennApps Mobile 2011, creating mobile apps relevant to Penn students. The winners walked away with some neat cash prizes, and today, after a week-long voting period, MeepMe has been selected for the Student Choice Award!
Also check out Under the Button's coverage of MeepMe's debut!
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PennApps Mobile 2011, held in Philadelphia this past weekend, was not exactly a death-match-hack-a-thon, but it was a pretty grueling test of mind and body, a competitive coding event in which 31 teams entered and, after 48 hours of coding, just 23 survived.
Organized by the Dining Philosophers, the University of Pennsylvania’s Computer Science club, PennApps Mobile was the latest in a series of such events and Monetate was proud to be a returning sponsor, alongside international brands like Red Bull, Microsoft, Google, plus regional technology vendors such as Comcast and high-tech VC players like First Round Capital, which sponsored the Student Choice Award.
Twilio is a proud sponsor of PennApps 2011. I'm excited to be making the trip down from New York City to demo the Twilio API and help all the participating teams build awesome applications.
Hosted by the Dining Philosophers, UPenn's Computer Science Interest Group, the event kicks off on Friday at 6PM with demos and dinner. Hacking continues until Sunday afternoon at 1:30PM. Teams will be given a chance to present and prizes will be awarded for the top applications. We're going to award a Nexus S to one lucky team.
We’ve been doing a lot of writing about speech recognition on the Tropo blog of late.
And we’ll be doing a lot of talking about speech recognition next week in Philadelphia at thePennApps Mobile hackathon, taking place on the University of Pennsylvania campus on January 14th – 16th.
This is the third in a series of hackathons held by the University’s computer science interest group – the Dining Philosophers. This year’s event – which Tropo is proud to help Sponsor – will focus on the development of mobile applications.
Also thanks to our coverage from these sources!
Searching for an available washing machine, getting lost in Van Pelt, and being embarrassed by a ringing cell phone all have one thing in common: the inspiration for students to generate (from scratch!) smart phone apps as part of the 2011 "PennApps Mobile" application development competition.
Last weekend, ambitious Penn undergrad entrepreneurs came together to build mobile applications in the second semi-annual PennApps Hackathon sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Comcast Interactive Media, Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital.
