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Yahoo India R&D To Host ‘Hack U’ For Iit Kharagpur Students !

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Yahoo! Bharat R&D volition live hosting ‘HACK U’– the University Hack Day number for IIT Kharagpur students on campus betwixt 17 as well as xx March. Close to 250 students are expected to participate inward this 4 24-hour interval number of learning, hacking as well as fun, which is portion of Yahoo!’s on-going commitment to raise talent as well as excogitation amidst today's pupil bodies.

Conceptualized along the lines of Open Hack Day, Hack U provides a platform for the pupil community to prepare as well as prepare applications using Yahoo!'s Open APIs (Application Programming Interface) similar YQL as well as YAP, or fifty-fifty to practice a novel production concept itself. This novel concept provides students amongst the chance to run on production ideas, prepare working prototypes inward a 24 hr ‘Hackathon’ as well as eventually stand upwards the conduct chances to win cool prizes.

The number volition kicking off amongst a serial of hack-related presentations as well as tech talks past times Yahoo! engineers followed past times a non-stop 24-hour hacking session past times the students. Praveen Ramachandra, Senior Architect at Yahoo!, volition deliver the keynote address reinforcing Yahoo!'s vision around the ask to deliver personally meaningful as well as relevant digital experiences to users of the Web.

Over the class of the 4 days, students volition live able to interact amongst Yahoo! spider web experts, have hacking tips as well as hands-on exposure to cutting-edge applications as well as technologies.

Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Head of the Department of Computer Science as well as Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, said that, “The reply to Yahoo! HackU at IIT Kharagpur shows that
world-class innovations volition blossom when immature minds of the students come upwards inward contact amongst the rich evolution surround as well as challenges provided past times Yahoo!. The pupil community at IIT Kharagpur welcomes the number amongst groovy enthusiasm as well as volition engage inward intense evolution over a catamenia of 3 days inward collaboration amongst Yahoo! experts. Students volition demonstrate several interesting apps, many having the hope of commercial role inward future, equally a portion of the event. All of us at IIT Kharagpur aspect frontwards to deeper collaboration amongst Yahoo! through similar events inward future.”

According to Rajeev Rastogi, Vice President as well as caput of Yahoo! Labs Bangalore, “Yahoo! is the premier digital media company. We are intensely focused on creating digital content as well as experiences that connect people to what matters around to them. We encourage students to role this equally a guiding regulation spell edifice their hacks. During HackU, students volition acquire the conduct chances to access to a greater extent than or less of these technologies as well as insights equally portion of Yahoo!’s commitment to raise the spirit of innovation, both on as well as off campus. Our association amongst premier inquiry institutes similar IIT Kharagpur fosters innovation, inquiry collaboration as well as talent for our internship programs. It creates an ecosystem that is a winning partnership for both students as well as the industry.”

Hack U encourages participation from students through hack ideas as well as innovative concepts on shared inquiry interests such equally data extraction, parallel/distributed programming as well as other focal areas. Technology experts volition also live conducting technical talks on Yahoo!'s Open Platforms including YUI, OAuth, YAP, YQL during the event.

*About Open Hack Day

Open Hack Days started equally an internal number that brought Yahoo! developers together. Overtime it has acquire a much-anticipated external number that is forthwith held across Yahoo! offices around the globe.

The annual number has Developer workshops amongst sessions led past times Yahoo! on Blueprint, OpenMail, YAP, YQL as well as Yahoo! Social, as well as progresses to an overnight Hack Camp, lastly amongst demos, judging as well as honor presentations.

Open Hack Day enables talented developers to practice better, to a greater extent than relevant as well as to a greater extent than social experiences on the Yahoo! network as well as beyond. The spirit of Open Hack Day is to leverage Yahoo’s opened upwards API’s as well as developer tools to practice novel applications.

Yahoo! Bharat Research & Development 

Bangalore is where Yahoo! has its instant largest R&D middle globally. Established 10 years ago, Yahoo! Bharat R&D plant amongst a mission to deliver production as well as applied scientific discipline excogitation that practice a important describe organization touching globally. Today, the centre employs a large number of Yahoos who are putting their passion to invent the cyberspace of the future, as well as are engaged inward end-to-end production development, from concept through launch. The inquiry arm, called Yahoo! Labs, focuses on basic as well as applied inquiry inward the areas of next-generation search, advertising as well as large-scale computing systems. The organization has nurtured 1 of the around talented teams of scientists, researchers, architects, designers, developers, production managers as well as engineers who are are working together to prepare innovative technologies, products as well as experiences that positively touching people’s lives.

Bangalore centre is an integral root of intellectual belongings at Yahoo!. Over the lastly 4 years, Yahoo’s Bangalore centre has yielded a 50% average twelvemonth over twelvemonth increase inward catch submissions for patent consideration. It has undertaken end-to-end evolution of to a greater extent than than xx products providing best-in-class consumer experiences as well as online advertising products for both global as well as emerging markets. Some of its well-known products innovations are Yahoo! Cricket, OMG, Helium, Vertex, NGD Marketplace.

About Yahoo! 

Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) is the premier digital media company, creating deeply personal digital experiences that hap to a greater extent than than one-half a billion people connected to what matters around to them, across devices as well as around the globe. That’s how nosotros deliver your world, your way. And Yahoo!’s unique combination of Science + Art + Scale connects advertisers to the consumers who prepare their businesses. For to a greater extent than information, see the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.com) or the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com)

Media contact details

Arunav Sinha,
Yahoo! Bharat R&D,
+91 9008300155,
arunav@yahoo-inc.com

Sonali P.S.,
Mutual PR,
+91 9844489854,
sonali@mutualpr.com

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