Hi all,

I thought that this hackathon type event hosted by the US Navy might be of interest to some of you. The link in the attached email does not seem to work. Here is the correct link: https://www.hackthemachine.ai

Best,

Jinsub Kim

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All;

Please see the information below and the attached .pdf announcing the HACK the MACHINE contest taking place 16-20NOV2021 in a virtual environment. Feel free to share with your students as you see fit.

Announcement below:

HACKtheMACHINE is once again taking over the NavalX space for HACKtheMACHINE Unmanned, their virtual technology prize challenge designed to accelerate the work of the Navy’s Unmanned Task Force. Participants from all backgrounds are encouraged to participate in the challenge series which will allow them the opportunity to win a piece of the $90k in cash prizes, earn contracts, and engage with some of the DON's most interesting challenges. Three tracks are available including:

Maritime Cyber: Test the security of the Navy’s next generation unmanned drone swarm autopilot systems in this bug bounty contest!

Data Science: Bring useful, battle-tested machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to the Navy by developing methods to sort good data from dangerous data in degraded environments.

Digital Engineering: Show the Navy how to create model-based definitions of requirements for wide-area search that can be tested against real system models in unmanned mission simulations!

Dates: 16-20 November

Location: 100% virtual--compete from your couch, your backyard, the library, anywhere!

Attendance eligibility: Open to all! Join as a team, or as an individual.

Listen to the NavalX Podcast covering HACKtheMACHINE here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-43-hack-the-machine-with-zac-staples/id1527466329?i=1000539868582

Jinsub Kim

Asst. Professor, School of EECS, Oregon State University

3011 Kelley Engineering Center, Corvallis, OR 97331

Email: jinsub.kim@oregonstate.edu / Tel. 541-737-3304

Web: http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~kimjinsu/