{"id":8493,"date":"2016-10-17T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:24:55","slug":"8493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2016\/10\/17\/8493\/","title":{"rendered":"BU CS students excel at HackUMass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cs\/files\/2016\/10\/hackumass_group-636x476.jpg\" alt=\"hackumass_group\" width=\"636\" height=\"476\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-8494 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2016\/10\/hackumass_group-636x476.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2016\/10\/hackumass_group-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2016\/10\/hackumass_group.jpg 1794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/>Over Columbus day weekend, students representing <a href=\"http:\/\/builds.cc\/\">BUILDS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/make.bu.edu\/\">MakeBU<\/a> competed at the fourth annual HackUMass. Two of the students, Rooday Raveendran and Kevin Liang, both freshmen in Computer Science, placed in the top eight as finalists in addition to winning the most funny\/creative\/playful project. Their project, Qrator, allowed users to log in via Spotify and rate and search playlists using different user-provided characteristics, like &#8220;danceability&#8221;. You can view it at <a href=\"http:\/\/qratorapp.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">qratorapp.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Columbus day weekend, students representing BUILDS and MakeBU competed at the fourth annual HackUMass. Two of the students, Rooday Raveendran and Kevin Liang, both freshmen in Computer Science, placed in the top eight as finalists in addition to winning the most funny\/creative\/playful project. Their project, Qrator, allowed users to log in via Spotify and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493"}],"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=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8496,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}