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Tag: Hackathon

Food Hackathons: food tech startups growing

April 15, 2013June 23, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Metadata Masterdata, Social Business

Food Hackers Cook Up a Storm of Startup Ideas in San Francisco
Wade Roush, xconomy.com

Wade RoushFile this under “more evidence that food-tech is one of the hottest areas for Bay Area entrepeneurs.” A weekend Food Hackathon contest at SOMACentral’s new 450 Townsend Street space attracted some 170 developers, designers,…

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Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life

April 9, 2013June 21, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Behavioral Science, Metadata Masterdata, Social Business

CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects.

After he grad­u­at­ed from UCLA with a degree in phi­los­o­phy, Sahade­va Ham­mari emailed one of his…

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NYC bio hackers make new foods at meetup

December 19, 2012April 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Metadata Masterdata, Social Business

The hackathon about hacking meat
Cesar Torres, arstechnica.com

A particpating member of Hack//Meat, a hackathon held in New York City December 7-9.Mike Lee of Studiofeast.comDevelopers and engineers who participate in hackathons are familiar with the rules. An organizer brings programmers together to work on…

RT @arstechnica: The hackathon about hacking meat http://flip.it/eUjBa by @Urraca http://flip.it/RDblg

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Open science event in London this weekend

December 10, 2012May 28, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Metadata Masterdata, Social Business

 

English: The City of London skyline as viewed ...
English: The City of London skyline as viewed toward the north-west from the top floor viewing platform of London City Hall on the southern side of the Thames. In the foreground: Dixie Queen and Millennium Time at Tower Millennium Pier. This is a 5 segment panoramic image taken by myself with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f/4L IS lens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

If you’re in Lon­don this week­end, you should know that the Well­come Trust is spon­sor­ing a two-day bio­science hackathon with prizes award­ed for the best ideas in four cat­e­gories: Open Me — col­lect­ing data on your­self and mak­ing it use­…

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Open science event in London this weekend

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