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ABE SYMPOSIUM AT DLRC A GREAT SUCCESS

On a lovely Thursday morning and afternoon, Dr. Sabine Brunswicker delivered a plenary speech on the potential for Open Digital Innovation within the agricultural sector for agricultural & biological engineers at the ABE Graduate Symposium.

VISITING STUDENT FROM JAPAN AT RCODI

This week, the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation is enjoying the visit of Takeshi Ishikawa. Takeshi is a second year Master’s student in the Graduate School of Business & Commerce, Keio University, Japan.

VOLUNTEER OPENINGS

At the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation we value highly the input from students, so if you are a motivated and engaged individual interested in working with novel innovation research and assisting us in succeeding, we encourage you to check out the volunteer job openings listed below – these will give you highly applicable job experience and the possibility of a recommendation from the ONLY Open Digital Innovation research division in the Midwest.

THE BLUE IRONHACK WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!

With many engaged and motivated developers from Purdue University, the Blue IronHacks awards ceremony came to a great conclusion! With a problem that challenged the students to create a mashup that could help West Lafayette citizens in choosing optimal housing based on a number of criteria, the competition was tough but we witnessed a lot of great solutions.

THE BLUE IRONHACKS ARE A GREAT SUCCESS

A group of motivated hackers finished their second out of three submissions last night at Midnight for the Blue IronHacks and are now up for judging by our expert panel. “The submissions so far have taken into account various problem aspects and settings, and it is truly impressive what the hackers are doing with Open Data”, said Cheryl Hsiang, one of our researchers and judges.

THE RED IRONHACK OFFICIALLY KICKS OFF!

The Red ‪#‎IronHack‬ officially kicked off at noon! For those of you who did not complete the short yet really important survey, please do so to be eligible for some cool awards!

DISCOVERY LECTURE SERIES TALK ON INNOVATION DISRUPTION

Well-known and renowned business strategist, speaker, and author, Paul Nunes, will give a talk for the Discovery Lecture Series “Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation”. Nunes is the Global Managing Director of the Accenture Institute for High Performance, a global “think-and-act-tank” which aims to define and measure high-performance businesses.

KICKOFF OF THE PURDUE RED IRONHACKS

Tomorrow at 5:00 PM in DLRC, RCODI will kick off it’s first training session for the IronHacks. This is your chance to learn about open data, how to do cool visualizations, and hack to create cool and novel applications for society!

RCODI EVENT: PURDUE IRONHACKS

The Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI) and the Purdue Hackers invite you to an evening event to hear about the new exciting initiative of hack series, the “Purdue IronHacks” which will take place over the fall semester of 2015.

SIGN UP FOR PURDUE IRONHACKS

The sign up for the Purdue IronHacks is now up! Read about the different problems here: Red IronHack Blue IronHack  Green Iron Hack Yellow IronHack SIGN UP HERE!