New Delhi: Yahoo India R&D recently hosted 'Hack U' for the students of the Computer Science Department at IIT Bombay. Hack U is Yahoo's university program that brings the concept behind Yahoo Hack events to engineering students on university campuses in India.
Held over a period of three days (Aug 2- Aug 4, 2013), Hack U at IIT- Bombay kicked off with a series of hack-related presentations, followed by a non-stop 24-hour hacking competition. Over 160 students participated in the hacking competition. Teams came up with ideas and working prototypes successfully showcasing 31 demos in 24 hours.
These hack prototypes demoed by students ranged from hacks focused on content enrichment to recommendation systems based on social signals and sentiment analysis. Most of the hacks leveraged solutions from scientific problems in areas like entity extraction, entity disambiguation and natural language processing. The winning hacks are listed below:
Grand prize winner
GRiFfin : A social app that recommends a route allowing a bunch of friends to visit a place, maximizing the distance travelled together.
Second prize winner
Time Glider : A media app where users can enter search terms and get to view a timeline of news articles relating to that term. This is displayed to them via an interactive timeline interface that is extremely user friendly.
Third prize winner
Imagify : The app finds relevant images for news articles that don't have any images by taking phrases from the title of the article and retrieving the top 20 relevant images through Yahoo! Boss API. The images are matched based on the description of the image and the article text and the image with highest semantic textual entailment score is inserted into the article.
Hack U was conducted in IIT Kharagpur and IIT Madras earlier this year. Forthcoming Hack U is planned for IIT-Delhi and IIT-Kanpur this month.
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