Two students from the city have won the Bluemix Hackathon organised by IBM as part of the CeBIT India 2014.
Keerthi Chandra and Gunjan Kumbhare of Team Chethana won the first prize for developing a “knowledge-based search engine” app that allows a user to ask just about anything, and obtain relevant answers. The app uses IBM’s cognitive technology Watson and its cloud platform Bluemix.
Keerthi is a student in PES Polytechnic and Gunjan is a mechanical engineering student at City Engineering College.
More than 50 teams participated in the event. There were many apps around smart shopping, reporting cybercrimes, and finding ‘shared office space’, among others. Runners-up were Ramesh Ravi, Peter Ngugi, and Vaibhav Mule of Team Stealthmode, who developed ‘OfficeShare’, an application to connect young entrepreneurs and people looking for affordable office space with potential renters.
