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Welcome to Hawaii Hackers
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I am a student studying computer science at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
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About your team
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I'm a Senior in the Computer Science department at UH Hilo. I first came to Hawaii in search of a fresh start back in December of 2007.
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I didn't really know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, but I did know I needed a way to make a living. I took a job with a
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large ornamental plant farm. It was hard work, and the pay was just barely enough to get by. Yet, in spite of all of this, riding around
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on a tractor all day gave me a great deal of time to think. And as I thought, I realized that I wanted to go back to school.
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I enrolled at Hawaii Community College in its Information Technology program back in the Spring of 2009. Going back to school breathed
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new ambition and new life into my soul, and so I decided to leave the farm and eventually took a job with Upward Bound, a college prep for
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low income and first generation high schoolers, as a tech instructor for their Summer Academy. They were pleased with the way I interacted
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with the students, and with my knowledge of computers, and ultimately offered me a position as their IT Specialist.
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I graduated from the IT Program in the Spring of 2011 at the top of my class. From there, I made the decision to transfer to UH Hilo's
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Computer Science Program. The CS Program has taught me a love for programming and problem solving that I never knew I had. I became extremely
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interested in AI, Machine Learning, Image Processing, and Datamining, and have been supplementing the education I've received with free online courses from
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Coursera and Udacity. I am also an active member of ACM, and have particpiated in two Intercollegiate Programming Competitions, as well
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as the NYU Poly Cyber Security Awareness Week Capture the Flag, Google Codejam, and IBM's Master the Mainframe.
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My studies keep me very busy, but I do manage to get some downtime in where I like to hit the beach, go diving with my father, play video games, or practice jujitsu. As my education comes to a close, it is unclear if I will be able to remain in this amazing place that has
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changed my life so much, but winning this competition would certainly be a step in the right direction.
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About your skills and what you are going to do?
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As I mentioned above, my main interests fall along the lines of AI, Image Processing, Machine Learning, and Datamining, so I definitely plan to use my knowledge from at least one of these domains. I may take a whack at the real time communication theme, but being an educator myself, I may go in the direction of creating an interactive activity for first time software developers. API wise, I see a lot of interesting API's on
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Mashape, and API Tools, so plan on seeing API's from at least one of these sites. Moreover, I'll probably use QUANDL if I find that I need a large dataset unless I find a suitable dataset elsewhere.
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William Tan