Outside of Pulga, Calif., on the North Fork of the Feather River, the Camp fire rages on November 11, 2018. IBM’s Call for Code Hackathon for California Wildfires drew some 200 developers for a team-based contest to create applications to assist communities ravaged by fire. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Silicon Valley is not going to stop the next California inferno with computer code, but a small army of software developers got together in Fremont, California, recently to brainstorm new technology to cut the losses.
IBM’s Call for Code Hackathon for California Wildfires drew some 200 developers to the campus of tuition-free engineering school 42 Silicon Valley for a team-based contest to create applications that could end up saving lives and property when communities are ravaged by flames.
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