A hackathon is a collaborative gathering around specific programming challenges. We have set out 2 potential challenges for our July event.
Typically hackathons occur over a few days. Ours will start with lunch at 12:30 pm on 3 July and end 6 pm 4 July.
You are not expected to work the entire duration of the event, but the accommodation and venue are adjacent to each other, so you can decide how much time you want to work outside of the scheduled time.
Please complete the sign-up form with your details and we will respond by email if you meet the criteria.
Yes. All participants will have one nights free accommodation at Homerton College in Cambridge.
Yes. Two lunches, dinner and breakfast will be provided. Fresh fruit and biscuits will be available throughout. We will offer a set number of Barista coffees on demand for each participant.
We expect participants to organise their own transportation to the event. Homerton college is a short walk from Cambridge main railway station.
The venue will be locked by porters whenever it is not in use.
If you want to form a team prior to the event you can, otherwise we will help find you a team to join.
Yes. You are expected to bring your own laptop, which should have an up to date operating system and anti virus software. The venue provides a WiFi connection.
If you need access to a GPU, you will have access to this on the University of Cambridge’s High Performance Computing Cluster. We will try to make sure common deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow will be available. If you are able to bring a laptop with a GPU or are able to access your own GPU resources remotely, this may reduce any set up difficulties!
You will have access to open source annotated datasets such as DOTA, and usage is governed by the dataset’s license terms. If you have ideas for other datasets that could help, then please discuss with us during the hackathon.
We are aiming for an informal approach, rather than rigorous submissions you will be invited to briefly present back to the group at the end
No, see above
University of Cambridge participation certificates will be awarded to those who take part.
All submissions remain the intellectual property of the groups that developed them.
By submitting work, you represent and warrant the following: you will not submit content that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the content.
For the event we are planning to offer use of the University High Performance Cluster, and will load the datasets to a shared location.