FIRST-EVER GLOBAL IOT DATATHON SET TO LAUNCH OCT. 14

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FIRST-EVER GLOBAL IOT DATATHON SET TO LAUNCH OCT. 14

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Giving students access to a vast trove of IoT data will produce exciting results that we have not seen before, an inspiration to academics, government agencies and corporate thinkers alike.” — David Knight, Founder of anchor sponsor Terbine and STEM supporter

The Global IoTDatathon , in which students ranging from secondary through graduate school levels will produce applications for machine-generated data, has opened for pre-registration.
Tapping into the world’s largest index of public IoT data provided by Terbine , student submissions can include visualizations, analytical projects, controlling robots, augmented or virtual reality renderings, and many others.The goals of the Datathon are to foster original thinking that does not typically result from corporate uses for physical-world data, whilst exciting budding engineers, software developers, scientists and others about the opportunities that the Internet of Things is bringing to almost every aspect of society.“The data being generated by machines and infrastructure is growing daily and at an incredible pace,” said David Knight, Founder of anchor sponsor Terbine and STEM supporter.
These will surely be inspirational to academics, government agencies and corporate thinkers alike.”Judges for the Datathon include Dr. Jane Macfarlane, Director of the Smart Cities and Sustainable Mobility Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Gregory Waters, former CEO of Integrated Device Technology, Peter Knez, former Kellogg professor and CIO of Blackrock, Drew Starbird, Ph.D., former Dean of the Santa Clara University school of business, and others from academia and commerce.The Datathon is the first in a planned series that will encompass a range of themes, starting with Smart Cities & Transportation and culminating with Climate Change

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