And the winners are…

The Hackathon at Berkeley is an annual event (this was the third) organized by the Berkeley Computer Science Undergraduate Association, ST@B, IEEE, and UPE. This year the event was generously sponsored by Zynga, the social gaming company. Below are descriptions of the winning teams with very low quality video (sorry!).

The 2010 Hackathon winners are:

1. Team 12Inches: Christopher Berner, Z, Andy, Rohan – Video streaming from a server to an Android phone client, and touch relaying from the phone back to the server as clicks, at a rate of up to 20 frames per second. This was the team’s first Android application.
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2. Team SomethingDerogatory: George Deglin, Farz, Okay, Alina - Using OpenCV and OCR, this application automatically translates image mockups of sites to HTML and CSS.
3. Team Borat: Palash, Dmitry, Hunan- This website hack searches streaming music from different sources online, and makes it not only easy to find, but simple to listen to or save to your computer with a slick interface.
4. Slipstream: Arthur Klepchukov- real-time visual filtering of your twitter stream based on your favorites and word frequency.

Zynga Award:

Team TC Gardeners: Willy, Akshay, Pranava- A Wiimote mashup involving Google Street View and a hacked-up Python server to create a group virtual exercise application.

Coding for Good:

Team ClassBerry: Eric, Sridatta, Darshan, Freddie- A slick online replacement for iClicker, accessible via web or via SMS.

Esoteric Language Prize:

1. Ankur Dhar- TI-89 Chess (in BASIC)
2. Hilary Shi-Conway’s Game of Life in Turing

OMGWTFBBQ:

The Jedis: Stewart, Warren, Ryan, Gabor- Controlling a RC car. WITH YOUR MIND. Enough said.

Honorable mention:

1. Team StarShipCuberPrise: Kevin, Jeremy, Darren, Peter- A voice-controlled Rubik’s cube game and 3D curses renderer.
2. Team XtendedBrowser: Tim, Alex, Jonathan, Amber- Share images, videos, and so on over the web, across several computers, as if your monitors were joined.
3. Team Superwhack: Angela, George, Jon, John- Instead of dancing to the music, music to the dance – using OpenCV, this team wrote an app to derive music from one’s movements and clothing.

Thank you to our judges:

Cadir Lee | CTO, Zynga
Scott Dale | VP of Engineering, Zynga
Trevor Blackwell | Partner, Y Combinator
Paul Twohey | Berkeley/CSUA Alum, CTO, Trumpet Technologies
Dave Fetterman | Facebook
Vivek Wadhwa | BusinessWeek, TechCrunch, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Brian Harvey | UC Berkeley