Stanford hacking culture develops as students attend the Big Hack, LA Hacks

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Three hundred students gathered in the basement of Stanford’s Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center on Saturday for the Big Hack, the annual hackathon that pits Stanford against UC-Berkeley. The Big Hack was organized by three Stanford groups – BASES’s Hackspace, the Stanford Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) and Hack Stanford – in addition to Berkeley’s hacking club. This was the event’s third year, and, according to ACM president Karthik Viswanathan ’15, the number of participants has increased by about 100 students each year. Last year, Stanford students made up 15 percent of the approximately 200 participants. Although only 80 of the hackers this year were Stanford students, both organizers and participants framed the relative gain as reflective of an ascendant hacking culture at the University. Although Berkeley’s significantly larger population partly accounts for the difference in registration between the two schools, Viswanathan also spoke about a difference in culture. “I t

Stanford hacking culture develops as students attend the Big Hack, LA Hacks KYLIE JUE/The Stanford Daily By Kylie Jue April 11, 2014, 4:11 a.m. KYLIE JUE/The Stanford Daily Three hundred students gathered in the basement of Stanford’s Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center on Saturday for the Big Hack, the annual hackathon that pits Stanford against UC-Berkeley. The Big Hack was organized by three Stanford groups – BASES’s Hackspace, the Stanford Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) and Hack Stanford – in addition to Berkeley’s hacking club. This was the event’s third year, and, according to AC

Stanford hacking culture develops as students attend the Big Hack, LA Hacks

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