The event was aimed at providing students a platform to come up with creative ideas and provide technological solutions to real life problems. The theme for this year’s Hackathon was ‘To Automate Any Manual Process of Pakistan’. A total of 26 teams, comprising two to four participants each, and 118 students from seven different universities took part in the event.
The universities included Szabist, FAST-NUCES, University of Karachi, Isra University Hyderabad, DHA-Suffa, Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and Mohammad Ali Jinnah University. Syed Asif Shah, CEO IT Minds, Owais Sheikh, CTO Lutebox and Amir Ali Jivani, CTO Pi-Labs were invited to evaluate the performance of the participants. All three winning teams belonged to FAST-NUCES.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 1st, 2013.
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@Tahir, LUMS is the best University for CS, way better than FAST
@Tahir, LUMS is the best in CS. Most PHD teachers in its' CS department and very good facilities
Assalamualaikum!
What was the problem and the solution provided?
Regards
Saad
Fast is the best computer science university in Pakistan