North-East College Hackathon

"6pm Feb. 11th to 3pm Feb. 12th @ the MSTF NERD facility"

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Info

The New England College Hackathon is an overnight event which will be held at Microsoft's New England Research and Development (NERD) facility. Computer Science students from New England schools are encouraged to bring their friends and ideas to the event. Once there, students will transform these ideas into realities. The best hacks will be awarded prizes at the end of the event.

Microsoft and Zynga are sponsoring food for attendees and Microsoft has generously agreed to host the event. O'Reilly Media and Swipely will also be providing additional prizes.

Schedule

Start	End	Event
6:00 pm	6:45 pm	Registration
6:45 pm	7:15 pm	Welcome, Introductions, Agenda Outline
7:15 pm	7:30 pm	Tea
7:30 pm	8:45 pm	1-2 minute project/team pitches
9:00 pm	10:30 pm	90 minute tutorial tracks
10:30 pm	2:00 am	Hack!
2:00 am	3:00 am	Intercollegiate XBOX/Kinect Tournament
3:00 am	11:00 am	Hack / Sleep
8:00 am	9:00 am	Breakfast
12:30 pm	2:30 pm	Groups present to judges
3:00 pm	3:00 pm	Awards

Speakers

Jesse Liberty	Jesse Liberty is a Senior Community Program Manager for Microsoft’s Developer Guidance Group, focused on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. Jesse is the author of a couple dozen programming books, most notably on C#, as well as the creator of hundreds of videos and tutorials on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. He has more than two decades of professional programming experience, including stints as Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T and VP Information Technology at Citibank. Jesse can be reached at http://JesseLiberty.com
Monika Adamczyk	Monika is an independent IT consultant with 10+ years of experience in architecture, development and project management. She is also a city lead for CrisisCamp Boston http://crisiscommons.org/ and a manager of Massachusetts GTUG http://massgtug.gtugs.org/
Mike Burns	Mike Burns is an Android and Rails developer at thoughtbot, building on his past experience as technical lead at four startups around Boston. He is the co-founder and organizer of the Boston Android developer group. His phone of choice is the classic G1 and his editor of choice is vim.
Dylan Field	Dylan Field is studying Computer Science at Brown University. Last summer Dylan was a data mining / analytics intern at LinkedIn. Dylan was previously a research assistant to danah boyd at Microsoft NERD. In the summer of 2009, he worked as a developer at Indinero (YC ‘10). During high school, Dylan interned for O’Reilly Media.
Thom Goodsell	Thom Goodsell is software developer, by day, and a city co-lead for CrisisCommons Boston. CrisisCommons is a community of volunteers devoted using creative problem solving and open technologies to help in times and places of crisis. He has a decade of experience moving between research and commercial start-ups at various levels, working on problems in robotics, retail fashion, travel, and health care. He is both a skeptic and a believer in humanity and in the potential technology to improve the world.
Edwin Guarin	Edwin Guarin is the Academic Developer Evangelist for New England. That means he gets paid to travel around talking to college students about how to do cool stuff like make games for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7, and tell them about how they can get software for free, as well as getting involved in the premier technology competition for students. He says it's not a bad job at all. In a previous life at Microsoft, he was a Rapid Response Engineer Lead, working with big customers around the world to solve IT issues. In Edwin's spare time, he likes to race his motorcycle on the track and catch Red Sox games at Fenway.
Jim O'Neil	Jim is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft who covers the Northeast District (namely, New England and upstate New York). His overall focus is to engage with the development community in the area through user groups, code camps, barcamps, Microsoft-speaking events, etc., and just in general serve as ambassador for Microsoft. Over the past year or so, Jim has been focusing on software development scenarios using cloud computing and Windows Azure.