OxfordHack 2017
373 Registered
Allowed team size:
1 - 4
373 Registered
Allowed team size:
1 - 4
Winners are announced.
Winners
Microsoft: Cognitive Services
Elsevier: Empowering Knowledge
TPP: Connecting Doctors
Facebook Prize
Best IoT Hack Using A Qualcomm Device
Best Use of Amazon Web Services
Committee Prize: Futuristic
Committee: Most readable texts
Committee: You should have had a backup
Bloomberg: Keep Fit
Committee Prize: Social Hack
Overview
Join us from November 25th to November 26th at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford for the third edition of OxfordHack. This year, at the oldest university in the English-speaking world, hackers from around the world will be pushing the boundaries of technology to new limits.
Last year, we brought together over 300 coders from 53 universities, to create everything from a robot that fights unhappy people, to online whiteboards with LaTeX support.
Confirm your attendance on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter. We will make more announcements on various social media as the hackathon approaches.
Prizes
Special Prizes
Microsoft: Cognitive Services
The Microsoft challenge will focus on the Cognitive Services API http://aka.ms/cognitive. We will be looking for innovative applications of this technology. The focus being on the Vision API sets of cognitive services: AI, Data and pervasive technology which are driving the future. The team solutions will need to be built using Microsoft Cognitive Services. Cognitive Services are a free, easy-to-use, open-source SDK and services. They can even export models to run offline, starting with export to the CoreML format for iOS 11.
Prizes: 1st prize will be the newly released Xbox One X for each of the team members (maximum 5 per team) and a guest blog at http://aka.ms/faculty on their winning solution.
Elsevier: Empowering Knowledge
Echo Dots for the winning team
TPP: Visualisations
Designing new visualisations for electronic medical record data, specifically for use by people on their smartphones. This includes smart graphical visualisations of numeric clinical test data, for example, which can also alert people directly on their phones if their test values are out of a safe range or are triggering an alert, based on warning algorithms. Getting people to engage in their own healthcare and using smartphones to help do this intelligently is a major focus for global health.
We have approximately 1,000 sample records available for this challenge, all with realistic data for fictitious patients. These records are in the latest international standard specification for medical record data and there are existing libraries to help people get started. We'll also provide the information about evidence-based alerts and algorithms etc.
Prize will be one good drone for the winning team.
TPP: Connecting Doctors
Innovative ways of connecting doctors with the latest research information. Doctors find it increasingly difficult to keep up with current medical research and new treatments, as the literature is growing faster than ever. They are also very tight for time in consultations with patients and are always looking for ways to make their interactions with digital technology as efficient as possible. This challenge will focus on these two areas - 1) using voice recognition APIs to allow doctors to accurately record narrative consultations notes, without having to type this information up directly 2) using NLP approaches on these consultation notes to link the doctor with the latest research for the conditions mentioned.
We will provide some example realistic consultation notes to test both the voice-recognition approach and to facilitate the NLP implementation. We also provide a database of all research papers from every medical journal, along with metadata to allow for classification from the narrative text.
Prize will be one good drone for the winning team.
Facebook Prize (3)
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our Hack challenge is to come up with a project that that aligns with our mission (20%), is a great idea (30%) and has a strong execution (50%). Our team of judges will choose the project that best meets these criteria. The prize includes for each member: FB Hackathon tshirt, rubix cube, speaker, iPillow and USB notebook.
AIGaming: Bot Competition
3D Printer
Domain.com: Best Domain Name Registered With Domain.com
Raspberry Pi & PiHut Essential Kit
Best IoT Hack Using A Qualcomm Device
DragonBoard 410C & Power Source
Best Use of Amazon Web Services
$250 Amazon Web Services Credit (US ONLY) $30 Amazon Gift Card (Non-US)
Cup Stacking
Bluetooth Speaker
BlackRock Capture the Flag
BlackRock Back Pack
ilona.tech: Female Hackers (5)
Five scholarships to female hackers for ilona.tech NLP course.
Committee Prize: Futuristic (4)
Most futuristic hack: Great book bundle for the team
Committee: Most readable texts
Surprise
Committee: Most ergonomic hack (4)
Special surprise
Committee: You should have had a backup
Surprise
Committee: Most flying hack
Surprise
Bloomberg: Keep Fit
Our main prize will be the FitBit Blaze for each member of our winning team. Our challenge will be a fun hackerrank challenge where participants can also get smaller prizes.
Technical Director: Best Game
The best game will be awarded (obviously) some also good games.
Committee Prize: Social Hack
Books and MLH Medal
Help & Support
Please contact event admin
Michael Shao at michael.shao@seh.ox.ac.uk
Michael Shao at michael.shao@seh.ox.ac.uk
