Hacking For Good at the Fishackathon
By Doug McKnight
Hacking has a bad reputation — think the recent breaches of credit card systems at Target and Neiman Marcus. But there is a movement underway where computer coders are hacking for the public good. And it happened this past weekend at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Isha Dandavate and her three friends from UC Berkeley huddle in a conference room at the Monterey Bay Aquarium — sitting just few yards from exhibits celebrating marine life....
The national winning app, announced in Washington, turned out to be the one developed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium by the team from Berkeley....
The winning Fishackathon team included School of Information MIMS student Dan Tsai and 2014 graduates Isha Dandavate, Jenton Lee, and Kate Rushton.