The General Service Administration wants to bring in outside developers to “hack on” some core agency applications and, ideally, improve the usability of those systems. The agency is planning a ...

I’m part nervous, a little excited and honestly, a bit scared. My first hackathon experience, which I’m going to document on GeekWire, commences Friday night. Two nights before Sunday’s Super Bowl, ...

Emrick Donadei said participating in a hackathon gave him hands-on experience and expanded his network at Google.

Members of the Seattle University hackathon team behind the project “ResponseSight ML,” which used historical traffic data to predict likely problem spots to strategically position emergency personnel ...

Here’s the larger point that made this event signficant: Hackathons are awesome. They may be the most grassrootsy, most unifying, most purely creativity- and changemaking-driven aspect of the tech ...

Hackathons have quietly evolved from high-energy coding contests into serious talent and innovation arenas. Enterprises are ...

Each of these four Google employees took different paths to pivot into AI, but all of them spent roughly a year preparing for ...

A hackathon allows participants to focus on a problem or skill set, usually by competing for a prize or winner status. It's a popular idea at universities, but how can you plan an event that will ...

This spring, Steven Gates helped organize HAkron, the weekend long hackathon hosted at the Bit Factory for students. Gates has built quite a reputation as a hackathon warrior. A Hungarian immigrant ...