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Watch For, Hackathon 2017 winner, powers Mixer’s massively successful HypeZone

Garage Team — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:00:51 +0000

HypeZone, released in December 2017, rapidly gained millions of new users to livestream community Mixer. HypeZone’s secret weapon? The 2017 Hackathon Grand Prize Winner, Watch For, a Microsoft Garage project. Last month, Microsoft’s fifth annual One Week Hackathon wrapped up with astounding numbers. This year, during the largest private hackathon on the planet, over 23,000 employees registered to hack, and....

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PowerPoint team shows how hackathons and teamwork are the best testing grounds for giving life to ideas

Anne Legato — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:24:15 +0000

Hacking culture comes naturally to Alex Gueniot. As the senior software engineer for PowerPoint driving technical implementation of new features, he just can’t give up on good ideas. “I compulsively need to create and to collaborate with people. That’s why I’ve been involved in almost 20 hackathon projects in the past seven years. One year, I was on six hackathon....

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2017 Hackathon team connects with non-profit Yuwa to create mobile app

Anne Legato — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:52:11 +0000

Devika Mittal, a corporate strategy manager at Microsoft who grew up in New Delhi and now lives in Washington, DC, knew that child trafficking and violence against women in rural areas in India was a growing human-rights crisis. But for a long time, the fate of at-risk Indian girls far away from her, while distressing, was something she felt helpless....

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Seven hackathon lessons learned from my battle with lymphoma

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:40:27 +0000

Last week, I received some of the best news of my life. And the news came at a pretty exciting time. I received the phone call half an hour before the closing ceremony of Microsoft’s 2017 Hackathon, an event that my team puts on. For the Microsoft Garage, a team helping change the way the company works 52 weeks of....

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Artificial intelligence eclipses cloud and mobile projects to win the day at Microsoft 2017 Hackathon

Anne Legato — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:15:50 +0000

What started in 2014 as an experiment to engage employees has turned into a strategic tradition to help Microsoft establish itself at the leading edge of innovation. And this year, the hottest player at the Microsoft Hackathon was artificial intelligence. Organizers say the four-day event, which has become the world’s biggest private hackathon with more than 18,000 employee participants, provides....

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