just in case you've missed it: hackAuton was a success!

[Artur Dubrawski]

Team,

Huge thanks to everyone who helped organizing the first-ever hackAuton.

Nick, you were a machine! Incredible performance, thanks very much.
But big thank-you goes to all Autonians who contributed to making
this event successful beyond expectations.

We had 14 (or 15 depending on how you count) student teams attacking
7 important problems. They presented their results, some won prizes
(more details to be provided shortly), and they will publish short papers
to form online proceedings and be able to reference their work.

The students had fun. They have learned things about data science,
and the event helped strengthen the fabric of CMU ML/AI community.
It was definitely a good thing for the Auton Lab to do.

Moreover, hackAuton has made its internal and external sponsors happy as
well.
See e.g. this article by our partners in Colombia who contributed one of the
challenge data sets:
https://www.connectas.org/labs/2018-hackauton-25-anos-de-innovacion-en-inteligencia-artificial/

However, a success is a double-edged sword. Now we are expected to
repeat next year :P I think we could do it even better. Do you?

Cheers!
Artur
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