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USC Mobile Hackathon is a weekend long programming contest for building mobile applications. Sponsored by USC ACM, the event takes place between April 5 and April 12, 2009. The event features a week of tech talks and demos leading up to the actual programming contest the weekend of April 11-12.
At the beginning of the weekend, we will announce the theme for the contest. Participants are free to choose the platform they want to use for development. The only requirement is that the application they develop follow the theme.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 - Hack Day #2 - Results
Hackathon finished late today evening with the results being declared to a packed audience.
Winners
Judges:
- Dr. David Wilczynksi, Professor - USC
- Mandar Mulherkar, Engineer - Qualcomm
- Kevin Mahaffey, Chief Technical Officer - Flexilis
- Don Dini, Founder - Method in Mind
- Hana Al-Harithi, ACM Guest Judge
- Abhishek Malani, ACM Guest Judge
Thank you very much judges!
Other participants
Have a look at the wiki to see details of all the teams and their projects.
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Some event statistics:
- 120 signups for 62 person capacity.
- 23 undergraduate and 36 graduate student participants
- Participants included: 1 Business Major, 4 Electrical Engineers, 2 Interactive Media majors with the rest being Computer Science variants
- 1300+ unique visitors to the website
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Photos
Photos from the kickoff and other sessions have been posted: Check them out
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Saturday, April 11, 2009 - Hack Day #1
Slides: Hack Day #1
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Friday, April 10, 2009 - Orientation
5pm GFS 106
Theme announced - "Change in your pocket" - Check out the slides for more information
Slides: Orientation
We have lab hours today upto midnight - head over to KAP 107 or KAP 267.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - Prof. Trina Gregory will be hosting - 'Key components of iPhone Applications' Session
8pm KAP 140
Slides:
Iphone Intro
iPhone Data Persistence
Iphone Key Components
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - Apple Hosts - 'Developing for the iPhone' Sessions
By Mr. Steve Hayman, National Consulting Engineer, Apple, Toronto
2pm ZHS 359 and 8pm ZHS 159
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Monday, April 6, 2009 - 'Get your MAC ready for iPhone Development' Session
8pm, KAP 140
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Sunday, April 5, 2009 - Hackathon Kickoff!!!
Slides:
Hackathon Kickoff - Introductory session
Intro to Iphone Development by Prof. Trina Gregory
Remember: Both - individual and team registrations are required
Individual Registration
Team Registration
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ACM Mobile Hackathon Announced
Monday March 9, 2009
It's official! The next ACM Hackathon has been announced. This time the programming contest brings us to the world of mobile application development -- the world of the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME, Symbian, and many others. The rules will be simple. We'll give you a theme. Choose your platform. Choose your team. You have a weekend to build your application. Let the hackathon begin!
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