Take a peek inside Microsoft's recent One Week Hackathon
Huckins was quick to point out the difference between the misconceptions surrounding the idea of "Hackathons" versus the reality of Microsoft's approach.
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Microsoft celebrates "hackers" with release of new book as annual Hackathon begins
For the fifth edition of the Microsoft One Week Hackathon, participants will be given a new book, “The Ability Hacks," which looks back at how two hackathon teams created new technology to empower people with disabilities
Artificial Intelligence was the hot topic at Microsoft's Hackathon
The winners this year were 5 employees who had never attended a Hackathon before, and their idea was so exciting that Microsoft actually chose to "be discreet" when talking about it.
Microsoft's //oneweek Hackathon team using HoloLens to help overcome neurological disorders
Microsoft released a video today demonstrating one of their most recent Hackathon projects hosted in Redmond, WA using HoloLens to retrain the mind for Myoclonic Dystopia.
Microsoft cloud intelligence //oneweek Hackathon project helps reunite refugees with families
Microsoft recently announced a Hackathon Project aimed at reuniting refugees from war-torn regions with their loved ones displaced across the globe.
Microsoft kicks off internal //oneweek with Hackathon
On Monday, 14,000 Microsoft employees from over 72 countries around the world opened up the first day of the annual //oneweek Hackathon.
Microsoft is hoping to inspire the next generation of data scientists
Microsoft initiates Data Science Student Challenges to give hands-on experience to students in the field.
Help Lenovo make more responsive devices by joining their Multi-Touch Multi-Hack Hackathon
Lenovo has announced this month a global hackathon to invite developers to leverage their multi-touch SDK to build interactive touchscreen apps.
Sous-Chef app uses Cortana, OCR and Azure to bring cooking into the future
Keeping track of the numerous paper recipes can often be a time-consuming and impractical task. This is a problem Jane Koh hopes to solve in her group’s Hackathon project, Sous-Chef, a Windows app that collates both recipes written down on ... Read more
Microsoft's hackathon draws to a close but what did it achieve?
Microsoft’s 2015 //oneweek Hackathon has just drawn to a close and participating developers have now finished their inspiring, and often ambitious, projects. Among some of the cooler projects explored over the event’s past three days were; Team Bumblebee’s smartphone app ... Read more
Check out Neuroversity, a game that helps people with autism develop career skills
Aside from their partnership with the Special Olympic Games, Microsoft is also stepping up their efforts to help individuals with autism. Of late, Microsoft have committed to employing autistic men and women full time for their math and coding skills and they have even patented ... Read more
New Windows Phone app helps India's farmers modernize
During this year’s Hackathon, a Microsoft-sponsored event where developers and programmers gather to share ideas and brainstorm new uses for technology, a new initiative called Hack4Asia was announced as a way to encourage the creation of solutions specific to the ... Read more
Microsoft's Hack4Asia wants to bring innovative solutions to China and India
India and China appear as two of the largest growth centers for companies looking to expand their presence in the future. When the reference, “next billion” is trotted out onto stages, used during press conferences or littered in marketing pieces, ... Read more