{"id":7320,"date":"2015-06-09T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=7320"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:36:19","slug":"bu-cs-undergrades-excel-at-angelhack-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2015\/06\/09\/bu-cs-undergrades-excel-at-angelhack-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"BU CS Undergrads Excel at AngelHack Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"\/cs\/files\/2015\/06\/angelhackboston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cs\/files\/2015\/06\/angelhackboston-358x636.jpg\" alt=\"angelhackboston\" width=\"161\" height=\"286\" class=\" alignleft wp-image-7321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2015\/06\/angelhackboston-358x636.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2015\/06\/angelhackboston.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a>Two Boston University Computer Science students, Ben Lawson (CAS &#8217;17) and Tim Lim (CAS &#8217;17) and two MIT students Amin Manna (&#8217;17) and LaGrassa (&#8217;18) walked away with over $3,000 worth of prizes on June 6-7 at <a href=\"http:\/\/angelhack.com\/hackathon\/boston-2015\/\">AngelHack Boston<\/a> for their project titled &#8220;Pursue Happiness&#8221;. In 24 hours, they hacked together a project that analyzes public tweets in the city of Boston to plot the shortest path between two user defined points\u00a0&#8211; minimizing\u00a0distance but maximizing happiness. They competed against just under 100 people in 30 teams and won two of the five top\u00a0prizes (Best Use of HP Haven OnDemand API and Linode services prizes) Here&#8217;s a link to the project\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/45.33.85.238\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/45.33.85.238<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Interested in competing in a hackathon? Check BU&#8217;s annual overnight hackathon, <a href=\"http:\/\/make.bu.edu\/\">MakeBU<\/a> hosted in part by <a href=\"http:\/\/builds.cc\/\">BUILDS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students walk away with over $3,000 worth of prizes at AngelHack Boston <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7320"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7333,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions\/7333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}