PennApps Hackathon Weekend Takeover
This weekend is the PennApps Hackathon, a biannual event run by students in the computer science department and sponsored by seemingly every big tech giant in the United States. Apart from the 500 angry, focused nerds from the East Coast taking over your engineering quad for the weekend, it should be very exciting.
The hackathon spans 48 hours, and many will presumably not sleep – maybe we can bring this back, computer style. Look out for pictures, interviews, red bull, and tense arguments about the merits of non-relational databases!
At the end of the hackathon, an event will be held at Irvine Auditorium where the top 20 projects will demonstrate their products in front of a panel of judges. It’s open to the public, so go check it out at 2pm on Sunday!
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By key/value store on January 16, 2013 at 11:10 am
Lol non-relational databases…. cis330 hw0….
Mr. Guenin, with all due respect, every article you write on Under the Button is incredibly biased toward your own views and hobbies. The entire world knows that you attended PennApps fall 2012 and spring 2013, meaning that you have extra reason to cover this topic. There are many other topics to write about on a busy campus such as Penn’s! I put it to you, Theodore — you are not at all an objective journalist, and you should promptly retire from the paper. What will be next from your sneering mouth, an article on the Penn Glee Club? A puff piece on Penn Undergraduate Biotech Society? Please try to write about things that do not pertain to you.