OpenHacks is an all-inclusive hackathon targeted towards students all over the world. This hackathon is organized by TheOpenCode Foundation, and all sponsorships are tax-deductible. TheOpenCode Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization which provides disadvantaged students the education and resources needed to pursue a career in computer science.

Featured Sessions

All of our sessions are excellent, but our featured sessions are out-of-this-world! The featured sessions are taught by our special guests, who are industry-leading experts in their fields. Be sure to tune in to watch our featured sessions live on YouTube. All sessions will be available for replay after the sessions have finished.

Coding to Make Music: An Artful Design Story by Ge Wang (12:00 PM PT on May 23rd)

This presentation (with many live demos) tells a story about coding to
make music and to build tools for musical expression — taking a journey
through the ChucK audio programming language, the Stanford Laptop
Orchestra, the design of Ocarina for the iPhone, and the underlying
“why?” we make these things.  It is a tale about artful design and a
meditation on we shape technology, and how technology, in turn, shapes
us and our society. No experience is needed; all are welcome.

Locality-Sensitive Hashing by Jeffrey D. Ullman (5:00 PM PT on May 23rd)

Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a collection of techniques that seem almost magical.  Faced with a problem that involves finding the similar pairs from a large set, you can avoid doing work that is quadratic in the size of the set if you do it right.  Avoiding quadratic behavior is vital, since even a "small" set of a million records would imply half a trillion comparisons if done naively.  We shall illustrate the general principle of LSH by considering a particular problem: entity resolution.  We are given a set of records, say of credit-card transactions and bank records, and we want to find which records refer to the same person.  But names, addresses, phones, and other indicators of who you are might not be exactly the same.  There could be spelling errors, people move, and other changes may make the representation of the same person look somewhat different in different records.  We hope, however, that the records representing the same person will look more similar than records representing different people.  We'll talk about a problem of this type that I was once called upon to solve, and the way I used LSH to solve it.

Schedule

Gain insights into the different sessions, workshops, and mini-events for you to experience at OpenHacks by looking at our schedule. This schedule is subject to change, and we will be using Slack to notify you of any changes.

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