PEIC sponsors CMUQ Hackathon Category
PEIC sponsored the EAA Award for Humanitarian Technology at Carnegie Mellon University’s Hackathon 2017. Hackathon is a 24 hour coding competition where undergraduates develop and present an app that solves or improve a process. The EAA Award allows students to be originators of key ideas and technology that can contribute to PEIC’s development of the Global Data Service.
The winning team, Attack Responders, created an algorithm that collects data using web-crawling, databases, and Google and Twitter trends. The algorithm creates a confidence level for each event, visualizes it using mapping tools, and creates a predictive model which highlights regions where an attack was possible.