UP Students Impress Yahoo! Execs
To quote the Inquirer article:
Five computer science students from the University of the Philippines Diliman showed their programming skills to executives of Internet giant Yahoo! in the first Philippines Hack Day contest.
Ralph Justin Arce and Wigi Vei Oliveros won the gold medal for their project called “YM Status Logger,†which tracks the Yahoo! Messenger user’s status.
Meanwhile, Abigail Yacat won silver for her “YM Conversation Distributor†project, which describes how a user can distribute private conversation to other users.
Bronze medalists were Vanessa Rose Castro and James Wyson who developed the “YM Thesis Mate,†helping thesis makers edit their documents collaboratively using YM.
All three winning projects used application programming interfaces (API) from Yahoo!
At least four of the students were my orgmates in UP ACM. Congratulations, guys!
Also, check out a video of the 1st Philippine Yahoo! Hack Day.
(Via Ia’s email.)
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October 12th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I personally like all the winners’ ideas. I know how invaluable Yahoo! Messenger is to collaboration and communication in and outside academic affairs. Never mind Web 2.0 applications out there, with the right plugins YM can be the “everything” for that.
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Very cool projects. I even saw RJ Arce’s interview at ANC. Grabe, sikat.
The UPD CS department seems to be on the limelight right now. UPD won in this year’s ACM-ICPC:
http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
October 24th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Diwa, thanks a lot for the heads-up.
I was supposed to blog about the ICPC win a few days ago but got swamped by offline thingies. The new post can be found here.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
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