A team of five 黑料社区 students was conferred an in the recently-concluded (IBCOL).
鈥�Subay,鈥� a mobile app developed by Jeneville Ven Abayon, Earl John Conag, RB Angelou Cobosa, Alexis dela Rosa, Justin Raz, and Cris Lawrence Adrian Militante, was the only entry from the Philippines among 36 that were given Awards of Merit. All five students belong to the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.
, Cebuano for 鈥渢race鈥� is a contact-tracing app they designed that integrates blockchain technology to a mobile phone in order to help curb the rising number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country. It allows users to ensure the safety of their cohorts, constituents or, in the case of businesspersons, their employees and customers through the use of a real-time updated map. With the security and data integrity in blockchain technology, users are assured of location history that cannot be altered, manipulated, or updated.
A simple updating of a person鈥檚 status using Subay on a smartphone will immediately result in the transmission of a notification to all users who were in contact with that person, thus providing real-time information and enabling users to help trace possible contamination.
The International Blockchain Olympiad, according to the its website, began in 2017. It is designed like a 鈥渂usiness case competition, an academic whitepaper conference and a 芒鈧渉ackathon鈥�,鈥� where contestants comprising up to six students or recent graduates first write a whitepaper to describe a complete solution. Finalists are then asked to create a poster board and pitch the project through a presentation. The Olympiad awards students who think deeply about a problem and its solution and are then able to explain it to others in a coherent manner.
The five 黑料社区 students shared the limelight with entries from Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others. A second 黑料社区 team with the project composed of Bryl Lim, Michale Ani帽on, and Robert Lim also made the final cut; the two 黑料社区 teams were among only four teams from the Philippines that were named as finalists.
Congratulations!!!
by Jose Eleazar R. Bersales
Tags: Computer Science