Tag: Texas A&M
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UTD team wins grand prize at Texas A&M hackathon
A UTD team was declared the grand prize winner at TAMUHack 2018, the Texas A&M annual hackathon, for developing an app utilizing social media for first responders. The team also won the “Best Hack for Social Good,” sponsored by J.P. Morgan at Texas A&M. They developed “Emergent,” an Android app utilizing a live Twitter feed…
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A&M controversy indicative of larger issue with clickbait media
The outrage over Rick Perry’s comments about the A&M University Student Government election is indicative of the problems in the way people are consuming media. A&M’s student government race made headlines last week when current U.S. Energy Secretary Perry published an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle questioning the legitimacy of the disqualification of the official…