CodeForScience - India 2012 : Application Development Round

 

The Application Development Round is currently going on till July 15, which is another opportunity to showcase your talent and win exciting prizes upto Rs. 1,50,000! 

Check out the existing apps on the Applications Gallery to trigger your thoughts or use one of the eligible concept entries from Concept Formulation Round. 

 The sponsors of this competition, NVIDIA and Microsoft Research have announced for special prizes. Please visit ‘Prizes & Judging’ to know more about the various prizes for this round. 

CodeforScience-India is about coding to help researchers do what they do best: make new discoveries and contribute to science. The challenge comprises of two parts, Concept Formulation (which is now closed) and Application Development. Whether you participated in the ‘Concept Formulation Round’ or not, you can participate in the ‘Application Development Round’. The challenge is open to professors, students, developers, and researchers in India with all levels of programming experience and subject matter expertise

Could you and your colleagues face the nationwide challenge and compete to win exciting prizes? We think YES! This is an opportunity to show-off your creative talent and help accelerate science. That’s not all, the winners will be recognized and awarded by renowned experts from institutions across India and the winning apps will be showcased to over 15 million worldwide users of ScienceDirect and Scopus. So please join us in helping researchers do less searching and more discovering.  

Application Development Round
06 June – 15 July, 2012
http://codeforscience.com/india/start-app

 Submissions will be judged by a panel of science experts from renowned academic institutions and commercial organization in India. Regardless of participation in the challenge, we invite you to the CFS TALK & AWARDS on Sunday, 29 July at Indian Institute of Science to learn about the latest tools and approaches that impact changes in the scientific research workflow.

 

Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder and Director,
Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore
Professor of Oncology, Pathology and Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
pandey@jhmi.edu