Cemtrex Organizes Touchless Gesture Coding Challenge at Stony Brook University to Celebrate Upcoming Smartdesk Release
May 02 2018 - 9:27AM
Cemtrex Inc. (Nasdaq: CETX, CETXP, CETXW), a world leading
technology and manufacturing company, today announced the Company
is hosting a gaming coding challenge, a hackathon-style event, with
Stony Brook University’s Computer Science Department to celebrate
the upcoming release of the Cemtrex Smartdesk. Students will be
challenged to modernize retro games by utilizing hand
gesture-tracking technologies that have been integrated into the
Smartdesk. The coding challenge will also be sponsored by Stony
Brook’s Women in Computer Science (WiCS) organization and The Stony
Brook Computing Society (SBCS).
The coding challenge will take place on Saturday April 28, 2018
between 12pm and 10pm in the New Computer Science Building, Stony
Brook University. Students who will have the chance to win
internships at Cemtrex, Oculus Rifts, Google Homes along with a
variety of additional prizes. Winners may also have their project
featured in the upcoming Cemtrex Smartdesk.
The Smartdesk is slated for release this May 2018. This
advanced workstation combines and reimagines all the needs of the
modern office in a beautiful, intuitive, sit/stand desk. For more
information about the Smartdesk please visit,
www.smartestdesk.com.
Cemtrex’s CEO and Chairman, Saagar Govil, commented: “This
coding challenge will foster innovation in a technology that is
underutilized in today’s PCs: hand gesture tracking. We’ve seen the
capabilities of this hand gesture tracking technology firsthand
while integrating it into the Smartdesk, and it’s become clear that
there are countless more opportunities to embrace hand tracking for
both work and gaming. We’re excited to see the students’ creativity
bring these classic games back to life in the 21st Century.” Govil
graduated from Stony Brook University’s College of Engineering
& Applied Sciences with a bachelor's degree in in 2008.
The Computer Science (CS) Department is one of the largest
undergraduate programs at Stony Brook University. The National
Research Council ranks the CS Department among the top 10% of
computer science programs in the United States.
For more information in regards of Cemtrex Coding Challenge
Registration please visit www.hackcetx.com.
About Cemtrex
Cemtrex, Inc. (NASDAQ:CETX) is a world leading multi-industry
company that provides a wide array of solutions to meet today’s
technology challenges. Cemtrex provides manufacturing services of
advanced custom engineered electronics, extensive industrial
services, integrated hardware and software solutions, virtual and
augmented reality applications, monitoring instruments for
industrial processes and environmental compliance, and systems for
controlling particulates and other regulated pollutants. The
Company also develops its own proprietary IoT and wearable
devices.
About Stony Brook University’s Department of Computer
Science
The National Research Council ranks the Department of Computer
Science (CS) at Stony Brook University among the top 10% of
computer science programs in the United States. A dozen world-class
centers and institutes are under the leadership of renowned
faculty, many of whom are ACM, IEEE, NSF CAREER or industry (IBM,
Google, Microsoft) awardees. CS students gain the competitive edge
in areas such as systems and security, visual computing, mobile
applications, big data, human-computer interaction, computer
architecture, concurrency, and software engineering.
The department is the largest unit in the College of Engineering
and Applied Sciences and is among the largest on the campus.
Faculty and students work closely together in an open, collegial
atmosphere.
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