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MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Best IBM Disaster Preparedness & Relief Solutions

To qualify for the "Best Disaster Preparedness & Relief Solutions for IBM Code and Response Challenge," hackers need to incorporate at least one of the API services into their project. Submissions will be judged across 4 areas: Completeness and Transferability, Effectiveness and Efficiency, Design and Usability, and Creativity and Innovation.

We are looking for ideas that will help prevent, mitigate, or recover from natural disasters utilizing technology. Take a look at what our Call for Code 2018 winner Project OWL created.

Algorand

Build the Financial Revolution on Algorand

Use any of our developer tools to build an amazing application leveraging Algorand!

Using any of our dev tools qualifies your team for prizes. However, the judging team will give preference to teams that demonstrate creative competence by:
+Using one of the SDK's
+Writing to and reading from the `note` field in a transaction
+Using multiple dev tools

An example solution would be to: Build a solution for easy account management using one our SDK's, the solution should be able to:
Create and sign transactions, do the same with multisig accounts, recover accounts from mnemonic phrases
Bonus: Build a UI for the solution (command line, web based or other) in any language.

What is Algorand?
The Algorand blockchain is a 'Pure Proof of Stake' blockchain based on voting and registration mechanisms with Verifiable Random Functions (VRF). Leveraging these features results in near-instant transaction finality and true decentralization with respect to economic throughput and incentives.

Microsoft

Azure Champ Prize - Hack for Good

Microsoft's Azure Champ Prize Challenge is all about hacking for good. Let's see which team can use Microsoft Azure to have the highest positive impact, while addressing a clear need, problem or opportunity with a clear and concise solution. Include innovations in technical design and implementation of services (Cognitive Services, Bot Services, IoT Hub, Functions) to blow us away. Happy hacking!

Judging criteria:
1. Was the project developed using Microsoft Azure and did it have a positive impact? (required for entry)
2. Does the project address a clear need, problem, or opportunity and is the solution clearly explained? (10 points)
3. Does the project include innovations in technical design and/or implementation of services (e.g., Cognitive Services, Bot Services, IoT Hub, Functions) and/or user experience? (20 points)
4. Does the project have a clear target market or audience? (5 points)
5. Is the project's purpose and basic functionality easily understood? (5 points)
6. Does the project have a professional degree of production in terms of performance, user interface, visuals, and audio? (10 points)

Veritone

Most Interesting Use of AI Automation

Hackers design and automate a text, image, audio, and/or video-based data analysis workflow using Veritone Automate Studio that utilizes machine learning and demonstrates an application within one of the Hack MIT tracks. Bonus for those that not only analyze data with machine learning but trigger an action based on the machine learning output.

Submission requirements:
1 - Complete workflow design in Veritone Automate Studio workspace and deploy using the workspace or automation engine runtime.
2 - Automation can be run end-to-end to successfully produce desired data output and/or action

Instabase

Best Use of Instabase API

Instabase is a data processing platform providing services such as OCR, text extraction, natural language processing, and text classification. We're awarding $1,000 to the team that demonstrates the best use of our platform to solve a problem! More specifically, solve a problem using our platform to do:
* Optical Character Recognition
* Natural Language Processing
* Clustering and classification
* Information extraction and web scraping
* Python Scripting

Find more information about our API here.

Wayfair

Best hack to help the housing inequality crisis

From homelessness to hunger, there's a lot of room for innovation to drive significant social change, especially when it comes to housing inequality. Can you find a solution to help everyone live in a home that they love, where they feel safe and comfortable? Challenge your creativity and create a project to help solve the housing inequality crisis.