As part of our ongoing annual Hack U program, Yahoo! web experts travel to top engineering universities for a week of all things Web. During the week students have the opportunity to learn about the latest web programming languages, developer tools, and open technologies from Yahoo! and beyond. The week’s events culminate in the 24 hour University Hack Day competition where they gather in a room and build their dream application, with the support of Yahoo! engineers, plenty of caffeine, snacks, prizes and fun. This year, the winners from each of the past semesters' university hack programs will join us here -- at Yahoo! Open Hack NYC. The following individual students and student teams won their respective university hack days and will be joining us here in NYC! Be sure to keep an eye on these bright young hackers:
2008-2009 Winners
U of Michigan
Brandon Kwaselow
Hack: Points of Woe
A neat iPhone application that integrates a slew of yahoo's geo apis.
Georgia Tech
Michael Xu and Alex Guan
Hack: Pick and Roll
Visualize NBA teams as they travel, keeping track of all of their results, news sorted by date and the videos from NBA.com!
U of Washington
David Nufer, Alex Leone, and David Truong
Hack: Pac-Man on Google Maps
U of Waterloo
Addy Cameron-Huff
Hack: Hack Democracy
An incredible political research tool that allows us to dig into how your local MP has represented you by looking at what he/she has said on-record in Parliament. You can see see the excerpt about the topic you care about or the entire speech. You can also see how the parties stand on issues you care about based on how often they talk about those issues. And finally he added a simple RSS API for you to fetch the text of speeches by topic to let you build off of his hard data ming work.
Carnegie Mellon
Bryan Pendleton, Chris Harrison, and Julia Schwartz
Hack: The Inhabited Web
A real-time visualization of how many people are currently browsing the same page you're on, and approximately where they are.
UC San Diego
Jason Pope
Hack: Fire Eagle Auto Updater
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matt Sparks
Hack: Pastee
A secure combined pastebin/tinyurl service which was very polished. We actually ended up using it during the judging.
UC Berkeley
Steven Kisley, Andrew Toulouse, and Steven Schlanskler
Hack: Searchino
A hack using Yahoo! BOSS.
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