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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Join Yahoo! web experts for a week of learning, hacking and fun! You’ll hear interesting tech talks, hacking tips and lessons, and get hands-on coding workshops where you’ll work with cutting-edge technology.
The week’s events will culminate with the University Hack Day competition—a day-long festival of coding, camaraderie, demos, awards, food, music and jollity (it’s a real word, look it up).
Tuesday, March 8th - Kickoff Hack U Talk, Raffle and Dinner
Everything you need to know about the competition plus hack examples, industry tools and mobile web programming tips
Location: Klaus 1116 E/W
Time: 7:00pm
Wednesday, March 9th - Web Security Talk
Location: Klaus 1447
Time: 6:30pm
Thursday, March 10th - Guest Lecture: Douglas Crockford: Using Javascript Well
JavaScript has been shunned by the academic community because of its many obvious shortcomings. But it includes the best features of Scheme and Self, making it a language deserving of study and research. It was the first lambda language to go mainstream.
Location: Klaus 1456
Time: 6:30pm
Friday, March 11th - Official 24 hour hack competition kickoff
Let the Hacking begin! Ongoing talks, Food, Music, Games, Raffle prizes and Fun throughout the day/night in central base camp area.
Location: COC 101 & 102 (Move to Klaus 1116 E/W at 2pm through following day)
Time: 12:00pm
Saturday, March 12th - Demos, Judging, Lunch & Awards
Location: Klaus (specific location of demos TBA on website)
Time: 12:00 pm
