Third annual hackathon draws biggest crowd yet
By Lilly Mashayek
February 21, 2016
Cases of energy drinks and sleeping bags were scattered around the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building and Siebel Center this weekend as teams of student coders and developers competed in the 2016 HackIllinois hackathon.AGHackIllinois is a timed 36-hour technology competition,AG where stude...
Illini Hackers named season winners by Major League Hacking
By Sarah Soenke
February 11, 2015
On the night of Jan. 27, the long wooden tables of Siebel Center’s room 2405 were nearly filled by 8:15 p.m. With a Pandora station pumping music through the hall’s speakers, students pulled out takeout containers, laptops — one even had a desktop monitor — and plenty of soda for fuel until midnig...
