What did you learn during the Hackathon? When Quality Assurance (QA) teams test an app or service, determining what to test can feel like solving a puzzle. Developers and QA typically collaborate to ...

It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project. Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build ...

The author of this blog is Jaehoon (Paul) Jeong. Paul is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea. IPWAVE is a working ...

Think back to the start of what some refer to as “the COVID-19 era.” It was early 2020 and prep for IETF 107 was in full swing. The wiki for the IETF 107 Hackathon already boasted an exciting list of ...

At our annual company retreat, we usually run a hackathon for our dev team. But this year (at our virtual retreat), we decided to expand the hackathon framework to the entire company. We took the ...

Queen's "Under Pressure" blasts from the speakers in Facebook's Building 18 Cafe. A DJ spins on one side of the room, and on the other end there are two kegs of beer next to a rack of granola bars, ...

For years, Merlyne Graves spent several hours every weekend reading text aloud and recording it for her students who struggled with reading. Graves, a fourth-grade English language arts teacher at ...

Hackathons often fail on the measure that most of us consider primary: the prototypes. After all, the end of the day is a demo. But lots of hackathon-born experiments don’t turn out quite like their ...

Around Microsoft and other tech campuses, buzzing sounds usually suggest the whirr of a hard drive or a roomful of servers. But drive 20 minutes from Redmond, Washington into Seattle and that humming ...

Tiago Paiva never wanted to be in the business of call centers. But when he entered Twiliocon, a hackathon set up by cloud-based messaging company Twilio, Paiva decided the only way he could win was ...