Hacku IITD

Sir I am studying in Indian Institute of technology , Delhi (IITD) and after one week Hacku , (Hacking Competition) is going to organize . But I am newcomer , so I don’t know about it . Would you please provide me its all the details and how can anyone participate in it ?

Can you provide me the details of the App - Yahoo Hacku 2011, IIT Delhi - Online Status Notifier?

[sumit]

The details of the App - Yahoo Hacku 2011, IIT Delhi - Online Status Notifier are as follows:

Yahoo Hacku 2011, IIT Delhi - Online Status Notifier

Yahoo Hacku 2011, IIT Delhi - Online Status Notifier - precisely notifies the user via sms when a particular friend comes online on Facebook. One does not need to open computer or log in to Facebook account to use the App.

The app uses Facebook Graph API and Facebook Query Language (FQL) to find out the online status of a Facebook friend. It uses a cronjob that repeatedly sends requests to the Graph API about the online status of that friend. Once, it finds that the friend is online, a SMS is sent to the user using Way2SMS.

Yahoo Hacku 2012, IIT Delhi - News Graph

Information in news is highly scattered over space and time. So it becomes difficult to see everything in news, relate all incidents and draw out conclusions.

It give an interface where user can search the name of an entity in news and he gets a graph of the entities which are related to that entity up to a certain number of hops.

Entity - Any proper noun which has significance in news. They are related to other entities through well-defined relations.

One has downloaded past archives from some newspapers. Also, its database is continuously growing with the RSS feeds from those newspapers. It then sends those news articles to an NLP tool which extracts the entities and relations from it.

After that, it generates a graph out of them and based on the user's query, it display the desired information. It also provides some additional information about nodes which are extracted from some structured sources.