[Hackathon] Save the Dates: January 19-21

[Nick Gisolfi]

Thanks Artur!

Everyone: https://goo.gl/forms/rU7hbWIj2ZEa841y2

Above is a link to a survey where we will collect suggestions for the
hackathon's challenge problems.  Hopefully, most of you can at least submit
one proposal which is related to your past/present/future research
efforts.  Keep in mind that most participants will be undergraduates, so
the challenge problem needs to be something they can make meaningful
contributions toward over the course of a weekend.

As far as details for the event, the schedule boils down to the following:

Friday January 19th: Late afternoon kickoff, introduction to the challenge
problems, and setting teams up with their computational resources.
Saturday January 20th: Hack all day.  Potentially, we will have speakers
during meal times
Sunday January 21st: Hack until late afternoon.  A panel of judges will
listen to presentations and decide on a winning team/individual

Additionally:

We will be providing meals and snacks throughout the event.
Everyone will be strongly encouraged to get full nights of sleep over the
weekend.
The 3rd floor NSH Atrium is booked all weekend as well as NSH 3305, 3001,
and 3002 for breakout spaces.

If you have any suggestions for improvements to this schedule outline,
please contact me.

Please consider submitting a challenge problem proposal at your earliest
convenience so we have time to curate a selection of the best submissions.
You may submit as many proposals as you would like.  Be creative!  Feel
free to pass the link for this form to anyone you believe would be
interested in proposing a challenge problem.

*Lastly, if you are interested in helping with the planning/organization of
the event, please join the #hackauton channel on auton.slack.com
<http://auton.slack.com>. * (You should be able to sign up for the slack
team with an andrew.cmu.edu email address)

Thank you all so much in advance for your thoughtful submissions!

- Nick

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Nick!
>
> Everyone: Nick has actually proposed to call it a Hackauton.
> I liked it :)
>
> Thanks in advance for your involvement and help.
> This will be the first of the events to celebrate the 25 years of the Lab.
>
> Nick will follow up shortly with a brief explanation of the proposed format
> but we are open to ideas on how to make it better.
>
> The key idea is to expose the Lab more to the local CMU community and
> to hopefully stimulate more collaboration across SCS and campus of all
> people who are intrigued with applied ML.
>
> Cheers
> Artur
>
>
> On 12/13/2017 10:04 AM, Nick Gisolfi wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> The Auton Lab will be hosting a hackathon on the first weekend after the
>> start of the spring semester.
>>
>> Please keep this in mind when making plans during that weekend.  Ideally,
>> everyone will be able to contribute a little bit of time so that we are
>> fully staffed throughout the event.  It will kick off Friday evening,
>> continue all day Saturday, and end late afternoon on Sunday
>>
>> If anyone is specifically interested in helping plan for the event,
>> please contact me via email.
>>
>> As a heads up, I will be polling opinion in the lab occasionally between
>> now and the event for specific design choices we need to make.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Nick
>>
>
>
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