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 ...

The VR Hackathon hacks in progress at the University of Washington last weekend. The Seattle VR Hackathon was held this past weekend in the University of Washington’s Center for Education and Research ...

Mark Zuckerberg, wearing his trademark gray shirt, stood on a small stage at the front of a large room, a set of six gold-colored helium balloons hovering in the air behind him. The balloons spelled ...

UpTrend, a mobile app focused on employment access for youth of color, won last weekend’s Thriving Cities Innovation Showcase + Hackathon. The hackathon aimed to tackle issues facing the Black ...

As hackathon co-chair Jake Chen, Ph.D., associate director of the Informatics Institute, shared in his keynote talk, cancer has the attention of bioinformaticists and data scientists. “Research on ...

Hackathons have long been staple events in the Technology Industry since the late 1990’s. A Hackathon is an intensive event that brings together computer programmers like software developers, graphic ...

Esther Jang, a graduate student at the University of Washington, pitches at a recent Urban Resilience Hackathon at the UW. (Chuck Wolfe Photo) Editor’s note: Chuck Wolfe participated in this hackathon ...

Hackathons are an exercise in turning abstract ideas into tangible products. This is the same for startups, too: While tons of people have great ideas, founders are distinguished by their ability to ...

Fashion brands, which have turned to hackathons to come up with new tech innovations, are now targeting their efforts to come up with solutions centred around sustainability. Companies including ...