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  • Intern Hackday 2012

    July 24, 2012

    Editor’s Note: LinkedIn’s 2nd Annual Intern Hackday is on August 3rd, 2012. To get an idea of what goes down at Intern Hackday, check out this recap by Hristo Oskov whose team placed 3rd in our first Intern Hackday last summer.

    I’m extremely fortunate to have been a part of LinkedIn’s first intern hackday last summer. It was an incredible experience and easily the highlight of my summer. LinkedIn invited all Bay Area interns to participate, so I got to hack with students from top-tier universities all over the country and top-tier tech companies from all over Silicon Valley. We saw a variety of incredible hacks, including a 3D hardware-accelerated WebGL game (ROCKS), a speaking artificial intelligence knowledge engine (Sherlock), and a VNC Client implemented using only JS/HTML5 (JSVNC). Here’s a taste of the creativity, energy, and innovation we saw last year: