Category: Hackathon

HackAI Encourages Students to Explore AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the most impactful innovations in recent times, with its uses ranging from self-driving vehicles and virtual helpers to predictive analytics and medical diagnoses. Over the years, HackAI, hosted by the UT Dallas AI Society (AIS), has capitalized on the popularity of artificial […]

HackUTD Hosts its Largest Hackathon A hackathon is a hub for out-of-the-box thinking that fosters divergent creativity, ranging from extending the reach of existing solutions to discovering all-new solutions. People may see different problems or see the same problem from different angles, and when put together in teams, they collectively pool their roles and skill […]

Students Accelerate Engineering, Tech Skills at Toyota Hackathon Seven University of Texas at Dallas students earned spots to compete alongside Toyota software and hardware engineers from all over the world at the SWARM Connected Mobility Hackathon, held this summer at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Plano. Toyota invited six students to participate in the 36-hour […]

HackUTD VIII Challenges Students To Use Their Imagination And Knowledge To Change The Lives Of Real People Through Finding Solutions To Real Problems The University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science Department and the UT Dallas ACM hosted one of the largest hackathons in Texas for its 8th iteration last fall. HackUTD encourages students to use their […]

HackAI’21 Goes Virtual For Its Third AI Focused Hackathon Today, artificial intelligence is a buzzword that’s frequently mentioned. Still, many students are unaware of what it means, the subtopics within the field, and how they can get started and nurture their interests, especially beginners. The AI Society hopes to take the mystery out of this specialized niche […]

HackUTD VI: 700 Students Use Their Imagination and CS Knowledge to Produce Unique Solutions for Real-World Problems Last fall, over 700 students from across the nation came together for the 6th Annual HackUTD, a 24-hour hackathon organized and run by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) in partnership with the Major […]

Student Hackathon Experience: All Freshmen Team Win 2nd Place at T-Mobile Hacktober Hackathon A freshman CS team at UT Dallas consisting of Supratik Pochampally, Khalid Hossain, Cady Baltz, and Christina Abraham recently competed in the T-Mobile Hacktober Hackathon and finished in 2nd place.  Below is a short story written by Supratik Pochampally about his time […]

HackUTD’19: A 24-Hour Marathon of Student Innovation, Creativity, Learning, and Fun This past February, HackUTD, a 24-hour annual hackathon, organized by UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM in partnership with the Major League Hacking (MLH) Organization, was held in UT Dallas’s newest building, Engineering & Computer Science West. HackUTD ’19 was organized under the guidance […]