Wolfram Technology for Hackathons
Absurdly Fast Development & Deployment
The latest Wolfram technology stack makes it possible for you to develop and deploy useful applications in minutes.
In the Wolfram Cloud or on local hardware, Wolfram Language is the ultimate hackathon power tool. With its revolutionary approach of building as much as possible into the language—and automating programming and deployment—Wolfram Language lets you take big ideas and turn them into reality in the space of a hackathon.
Recent Notable Wins
Power Up 2019
Joe IaquintoWolfram Language + UiPath
hths.hacks() 2020
Jessica Shi, Claire Morton, Aranyo Ray, Anwesha DasTraCOV
HackTheU 2020
Matthew Bautista, Joseph Orlando, Justin Bang, Lienne Sinsights.MD
Kent Hack Enough 2020
Srikar Kusumanchi, Om Joshi GRASP
PennApps XXI
Trivan Menezes, Janum Shah, Austin Li, Grant L music.me
FrontierHacks 2019
Sashrika Pandey, SBSX Shrestha Compass
Garuda Hacks 2020
Alexandra Chirita, Prahitha Movva, Anh Pham My Fun ChemLab
TechTogether Boston 2020
Jenny Wang, Dolma Gurung, Laxmi Gurung, Kripa Shakya ambient—love the air around you
HackPHS 2020
Daniel Li, Rohit Lakshman, David Chen, Nate Sawant EduTools
PygHack 2018
James Austgen, Kyle McNamara, Isaac Warren, Sean Coughlin Greatest Gallon
HackMIT 2018
Jau Tung Chan, Jean Wang, Louisa Huang, Libing Jian r00t
Hacktech 2017
Yifang Chen, Yuelun Yang, Chenyang Zhong and Ye Ling Smart Fridge
HackMIT 2016
Anand Dwivedi, Kristy Carpenter, Jason Zhang and Prasann Pandya Breast Cancer Detection
Mhacks 2016
Aditya Vishwanath, Azra Ismail, Ralph Blanes and Sarthak Srinivas OrchestraAI
TreeHacks 2016
Aashna Shroff and Farhan Kathawala Hands-on Math
HackIllinois 2016
Kevin Renner, Harrison Qu and Ziwei Ba LookNote
MHacks 2015
Olivia Walch and Matt Jacobs Draw Anything | Blog post
HackNTU
Olivia Walch and Matt Jacobs Twig
Top Wolfram Hackathon Platforms
Wolfram|One
Wolfram|One is the world's first fully cloud-desktop hybrid, integrated computation platform—the ideal entry point to using the full capabilities of the Wolfram technology stack.
Wolfram Language on Raspberry Pi
Use Wolfram Language to compute and interact with hardware on the Raspberry Pi. Included free in standard Raspberry Pi system software
Wolfram Mathematica
Wolfram's original flagship technical computation product, continuously expanded for three decades, and now available both on desktop and in the cloud. Try it now
Wolfram|Alpha API
Put Wolfram|Alpha capabilities into your project. Contact your hackathon organizers or apply to Wolfram Research to get Wolfram|Alpha API credits
Wolfram Language
Popular areas for hackathons
- Visualization
- Text Manipulation
- Time Series
- 3D Geometry
- Image Processing
- Audio Generation
- Geographic Visualization
- Data Analysis
- Natural Language Input
- Machine Learning
- Social Network Analysis
- Financial Data & Computation
- Cities, Chemicals, Movies & 1,000s of Types of Data
- Instant API Creation
- External API Connectivity
- Device Connectivity
- Mobile App Deployment
- Automated Webpage Creation
- Interactive Webpages
- Automated Email
- Automatic Java & .NET Connectivity
- Instant User Interface Construction
- Report Generation
- Computable Documents
- External Program Scripting
- Neural Networks
- Wolfram Data Repository
- Data Science
Full capabilities (5,000 built-in functions; thousands of knowledge domains)
Note: If you know Mathematica programming, you already know the core of Wolfram Language.
Sample Projects
Resources
An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Stephen Wolfram's online book is an introduction to Wolfram Language and modern computational thinking—no prior knowledge of programming is required.
Fast Introduction for Programmers
A 15-minute introduction to Wolfram Language.
Wolfram|One
Wolfram|One is the world's first fully cloud-desktop hybrid, integrated computation platform—the ideal entry point to using the full capabilities of the Wolfram technology stack.
Create, Code, Deploy Workshop
This workshop showcases the fast development and deployment possible with Wolfram Language and cloud services.
Stephen Wolfram's Formative Moment
Watch this episode of Formative, produced by Reddit, to hear from Stephen Wolfram on his views and contributions to computing tools and scientific education.
COVID-19
Curated computational data and resources, updated daily.
Wolfram Language Home Page
All about Wolfram Language, including Q&A and a code gallery of projects.
Stephen Wolfram's Introduction
Video introduction to Wolfram Language by its creator.
Wolfram Language Documentation
Full documentation for Wolfram Language, with 100,000+ immediately usable examples.
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
More than 10,000 open-code interactive Demonstrations implemented in Wolfram Language.
Wolfram Community
Ask questions and get ideas from the diverse Wolfram Community.
Wolfram Device Framework
Integrated Wolfram Language framework for connecting to devices.
Wolfram Language Microcontroller Kit
Integrated Wolfram Language framework for connecting to devices.
Geek Out Conference Videos
See how to build an app in 60 seconds, connect to Arduino and much more.
Wolfram Events & Conferences
Virtual and in-person events, from office hours to Technology Conference to Summer Camp.
What to Do
Before the Hackathon
Get familiar with Wolfram Language and its deployment and possibilities.
Contact Wolfram for any additional resources needed.
At the Hackathon
We typically provide Wolfram|Alpha API keys and access to Wolfram|One; please contact your hackathon organizer for additional information.
After the Hackathon
Tell Wolfram Community what you did! If it's cool, we'll send you a T-shirt and some other great Wolfram goodies.