After scoring in the top ten at the MIT Hackathon and winning the Tufts Hackathon, the BU computer science student \u201chacking\u201d team of Gowtam Lal, Hiroki Osame, and Roman Zabenko has won Second Place Overall at the Clean Web Hackathon hosted by the City of Boston this weekend. The BU team also won the Audience Favorite Award. Their software helps mobile device users learn environmental information about their present location.<\/p>\n
According to the Hacker League website (www.hackerleague.org), the Clean Web Hackathon \u201cbrings together developers, designers and business professionals dedicated to optimizing resource use and accelerating cleantech development. Participants are tasked with building applications that tackle energy, waste, water, and other sustainability issues by leveraging web and mobile technologies.\u201d There were many professional programmers competing at the hackathon, including companies who formed teams for the weekend and a few other college teams (MIT, Tufts, and Dartmouth).<\/p>\n
The BU team came up with and implemented their idea of a \u201cGreen Captcha\u201d that promotes environmental friendliness and raises awareness of environmental problems. The team used government open data to include environmental facts embedded in what they called a \u201cGreen Captcha\u201d that is tailored to the user\u2019s location; their method retrieved data about the user\u2019s region from Data.gov and the EPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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