March 7-8, 2020
1104 NCSA building
1205 W. Clark St.
Urbana, Illinois
The third NCSA-NVIDIA AI Hackathon is co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, the Gravity Group, the Innovative Systems Lab, and NCSA Industry, and co-sponsored by NCSA and NVIDIA. The main goal of the hackathon is to let talented University of Illinois students, postdocs and staff showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving deep learning on a state-of-the-art compute platform designed for AI. This will be an intensive two-day experience culminating in the final presentation of results on Sunday afternoon. Students are encouraged to form teams of up to five students. NVIDIA will be awarding a Jetson Nano Development Kit to each member of the winning and runner-up teams.
To participate, we ask interested students and staff to sign up at https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/4857094 by Wednesday, March 4 and indicate which of the two projects they would like to work on. Students accepted to participate in the event will be notified on Thursday, March 5.
Hackathon Schedule
Wednesday, March 4
3:00pm — Introduction to the Hackathon challenge problems (optional to attend) (1104 NCSA)
Saturday, March 7
8:30am — Teams registration and light breakfast (1104 NCSA)
9:00am — Overview of the Hackathon rules, challenge problems, and a brief intro to HAL computing environment
10:00am — Teams assemble in break-out rooms and start working on the problems
Noon — Lunch (pizza will be provided)
1:00pm — Teams continue to work on the challenge problems (snacks will be provided)
4:00pm — Teams meet in room 1104 for a brief status update
Sunday, March 8
8:30am — Teams continue working on the problems (light breakfast will be provided)
Noon — Lunch (pizza will be provided)
1:00pm — Teams continue to work on the challenge problems (snacks will be provided)
4:00pm — Teams present results (1104 NCSA)
Wednesday, March 11
Winning teams are announced.
