Mon, 2012-07-30
The second event of the CodeForScience application development competition series concluded yesterday with CFS Talk & Awards, a thought leadership program featuring speakers across science, technology and research publishing sectors.
In addition to the application concept winners announced on June 5th, a total of six awards were given out to the teams that won the application development round. The winning applications were selected based on the evaluation criteria by the judging...
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Sat, 2012-07-07
CodeForScience, a global series of application development competitions for scientists, rising and experienced researchers and developers of diverse backgrounds, cordially invite you to CFS Talk & Awards India on Sunday, 29 July from 12 to 4:15pm at J. N. Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
CFS Talk & Awards is an open forum for discussing tools and approaches that are influencing the re-design of researchers’ search and discovery experience. Attendees will...
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Wed, 2012-06-27
We organized several developer events in 2011 and early 2012, including the global challenge ‘Apps for Science’ and the national challenge ‘CodeforScience Turkey’. Below are some of the winning applications from these competitions. Your application could be a winner at CodeforScience India; so bring out your creative side to develop innovative applications in the Application Development Round and win many amazing prizes. All eligible entries from the Concept Formulation...
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Tue, 2012-06-12
We would like to thank our sponsors – NVIDIA, Thermo Scientific, and Microsoft Research for their generous support for CodeForScience India which has been instrumental in the success of the competition so far.
NVIDIA – Platinum Sponsor
NVIDIA awakened the world to computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. From its roots in visual computing, the company expanded into parallel computing and mobile computing. Today, its processors power a broad...
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Tue, 2012-06-05
Congratulations all participating teams! Your entries showed originality and promising values; you really made our judges' job quite difficult! Out of 103 eligible submissions, 13 winners were selected as follows. After a tying score, we are announcing two teams to take the 2nd place.
BEST CONCEPT
IntelliSense
Pinaki Dey & Sudipta Sadhu
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
2ND PLACE
TimeTrail
Neil Naik, Satheesh Kumar...
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Fri, 2012-06-01
We would like to thank everyone who participated in the ‘Concept Formulation Round’ to submit your innovative ideas. The response was over-whelming and we received several entries which are now under review by the judging panel. So stay tuned to find out the winners of this round!
Wait! There is more coming up. The Application Development Round starts on June 6. This is one more opportunity for everyone to showcase your talent and compete for exciting prizes by building...
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Thu, 2012-05-24
Have you already submitted your concepts? Well, it’s not too late. The deadline for Concept Submission has now been extended until Wednesday, May 30 (See Schedule). Use the extra week to brainstorm ideas and compete for exciting prizes.
Check out some sample concepts to help you get started. You can also refer to our applications gallery to see some of the applications created by other developers.
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Mon, 2012-05-21
Integration Points refer to the areas where SciVerse applications appear in the Hub, ScienceDirect, and Scopus. An application can be integrated at one or mutiple integration points in the above products depending on the functionality of the application. Below are some resources to help you better visualize the integration points.
Watch the video that explains these integration points.
For more info, read about integration points at http://www....
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Sat, 2012-05-12
Have you started brainstorming? Check out application concepts from previous events. You cannot use them for your submissions but they are here to get your ideas rolling. Try to attack problems that you had yourself in your discipline area, or team up with your friends and colleagues to solve and find solutions together.
Drugs@FDA
Concept credit: Nishit Bhuva, Elsevier
This application will present to the users information about prescription, OTC, or discontinued drugs in the FDA and NLM...
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Sat, 2012-05-05
CodeForScience India is a two-stage competition, which involves concept formulation round and application development round. Participants have the opportunity to compete for prizes at one or both stages, each requiring unique technology, programming, and design skill sets.
The concept formulation stage will run through Friday, May 25, 2012, 23:59 IST, and the application development stage will run from Wednesday, June 06, 2012, 12:01 IST through Sunday, July 15, 2012, 23:59 IST. ...
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