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SRM wins Facebook Global event
It was an exciting moment for Team Tartanium, a team of four including SRM alumni Sumanth Reddy Panduglua and CMU students: Avi Romanoff, Nikhil Choudhary and Tiffany Jiang, when they secured first place at Facebook Global Hackathon Finals 2015.
Chennai: It was an exciting moment for Team Tartanium, a team of four including SRM alumni Sumanth Reddy Panduglua and CMU students: Avi Romanoff, Nikhil Choudhary and Tiffany Jiang, when they secured first place at Facebook Global Hackathon Finals 2015.
The fight to the finish was tough: 78 finalists, 21 teams from 11 countries. Hackers from Tel Aviv (Israel), Singapore, Moscow, Switzerland, Warsaw (Poland), Scotland, Barcelona (Spain), Canada, London and teams from within the USA(MIT, CMU, YALE, Georgia Tech, University of California Berkeley, Princeton, Northwestern, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and many other top colleges) were flown to the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for a three-day long intense competitive event.
Sumanth was earlier part of the team that won the Facebook API award at Tartan Hacks, CMU's own hackathon, were the prize was a ticket to compete in the finals, which they did. The project Auto TBT or Automatic Throwback Thursday, was done to reduce human effort in posting throwback thursday pictures, a very popular hashtag in many social media websites.
The inspiration for Sumanth’s foray into the competition was the time he spent at Carnegie Mellon as a research intern under SRM collaborative arrangement. Every year SRM University sends several hundred students on a life changing experience of spending time abroad in 78 leading universities across the world.
In the finals, Team Tartanium, which Sumanth and his team won, created (Onreel.news), which allows tracking developing stories around the world in real time through videos taken by direct witnesses. Markers appear on the map in response to Instagram videos being uploaded in real time. Hovering over these dots allows one to see recent hashtags people have used at that location. Clicking on a hashtag brings up a gallery of relevant Instagram videos, in order of most recent upload, in a grid format.
