85 hackers on 27 teams sat down at 6:00PM on Friday night to hack for 18 hours straight. At 12PM the next day only 23 teams and 63 students were able to cross the finish line. There were games, chat tools, web applications, and other random hacks. At 12:00PM on Saturday the 65 participants and 50 guests got together with over 700 viewers on Justin.tv to watch project presentations. At 2PM, the winners were announced:
1st Place- The Hiro Protagonist- Chase Shimmin, Jacob Howard
Chase and Jacob described their project as “an application framework that allows GUI applications to be rendered and interacted with from both a user’s desktop environment as well as via a web server, where they applications are rendered using XHTML/CSS/JavaScript. The application state is managed by an application server, which interacts with the local application interface through wxwidgets and with the web-based interface through AJAX callbacks.”
2nd Place- News Kaiser- Yiding Jia,Jeremy Cowles
Yiding and Jeremey described their project as a 3D news vizualization program.
3rd Place- Kaplan Killers- Upinder Malhi, Edward Lin
Upinder and Edward built a simple yet useful SAT helper. Their firefox extension highlights SAT words and shows the user a dashboard of words learned.
Honorable Mention- Ani Mani- Anhang Zhu, Muller Zhang, Jeff Yan, Avik Das
Team Ani Mani built an Adobe Flash analogue that produces scripted SVG, in compliance with open standards supported in several browsers.
In their own words: “We made an SVG-based animation framework, consisting of a GUI to specify animations and a Javascript framework to render the animation in a standards-compliant browser. Only well-accepted web standards are used and the both the tool and the resulting output are lightweight and easily accessible to enterprising hackers.”
Honorable Mention- Purple Skittles- Ian Henderson, Charles Ahn
Ian and Charles built a missile command game, where you literally defend program stacks from corruption.
We would like to thank our sponsors Palantir Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Alsop Louie Partners, and Kinfo!
Also congratulations to event co-sponsors CSUA, IEEE, and UPE.
