First runners-up were FIU AppDojo students Daniela Cadena(business and Jose Miguel Infante(Computing and Information Sciences) were among sixty participants at the event.
It is inspiring to witness firsthand the engagement of our local tech community in what I see as the chess tournaments of our times — The Hackathon. Unfortunately, the term “hacker” has come to be unjustly and inaccurately associated to criminal technologists. It is too bad, because Hackers actually represent many of the best and most innovative qualities associated with technology. Actually, to hack is to fix or improve, to write or refine computer programs skillfully, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.
Last month more than 160 contestants participated in the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon at UM’s Life Science & Technology Park, a remarkably large crowd. That is not even accounting for the more than 100 hackers that competed remotely from five co-working spaces in three different countries in Latin America via Google+.
~ Boris Hirmas Said
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