Yahoo! India hosts hacking competition ‘Hack U’ at IIT Bombay

Yahoo! India hosted hacking competition ‘Hack U’ for computer science students at IIT Bombay. Hack U competition was held between Aug 2 to Aug 4, kicked off with a series of hack-related presentations, followed by a non-stop 24-hour hacking competition. Reportedly 160 students participated in this competition.

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.

About Hack U

Yahoo! India conducts Hack U event every year at all old IITs. 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