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Thank you to all who entered the Spring 2013 Mobile Apps Challenge!

The winners will be announced on this website. Great job to all the entries!

Mobile Developer Community Meeting - March 27

On Wednesday, March 27, mobile developers and interested members of the U-M community met at the School of Dentistry, Room G378. Thank you to the School of Dentistry for hosting this event!

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Mobile Developer Community Meeting - February 26

On Tuesday, February 26, mobile developers and interested members of the U-M community met in Furstenberg 2710 on the Medical School campus.

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Announcing the Spring 2013 Mobile Apps Challenge!

The Mobile Apps Challenge is back again this semester offering up to $1,500 in prizes:

Competition - "Design an Original App"

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Winners of the Fall 2012 U-M Mobile Apps Challenge

The Fall 2012 Mobile Apps Challenge promoted entrepreneurial thinking and encouraged the U-M developer community to create innovative mobile designs.

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Mobile Developer Community Meeting - January 25

On Friday, January 25, mobile developers and interested members of the U-M community met in 1690 Beyster on North Campus.

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Thank you to all who entered the Fall 2012 Mobile Apps Challenge!

The winners will be announced on this website over the next week. Great job to all the entries!

Mobile Developer Community Meeting - November 28

On Wednesday, November 28, mobile developers and interested members of the U-M community met in North Quad.

If you missed it, fear not. Watch the video of the presentations.

Agenda:

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1DevDay Detroit 2012

Calling mobile devlopers and architects from around campus, the fourth annual 1DevDay will be on Saturday, November 17th at Cobo Arena. Session information can be found here.

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Mobile Developer Community Meeting - September 27

On September 27th, mobile developers and interested members of the U-M community met in North Quad. Heather Newman presented an impressive array of mobile technology produced by past and present members of the School of Information.

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Web Accessibility Summit

What: Join us Tuesday, September 25 in Ann Arbor for the third annual Accessibility Summit, a full-day online conference with seven experts on web accessibility, presented by Environments for Humans.

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UMSkinCheck app featured in the Atlantic Monthly and Popular Science

The new UMSkinCheck app for iOS was recently featured in the Atlantic Monthly and

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Mobile Developer Community: May 18 Meeting Video

Watch the video recording of our May 18th Mobile Developer Community Meeting.

Winners of the Fall 2011 U-M Mobile Apps Challenge

The Fall 2011 Mobile Apps Challenge promoted entrepreneurial thinking and encouraged the U-M community to develop innovative mobile applications.

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App boosts accessibility of U-M Library’s Epistles of St. Paul papyrus

PictureIt: EP app promotes the U-M Library's most famous papyrus, available on the iPhone and iPad. A detailed announcement from the University Record Update can be found here.

Winners of the Spring 2011 U-M Mobile Apps Challenge

The Spring 2011 Mobile Apps Challenge promoted entrepreneurial thinking and encouraged the U-M community to develop innovative mobile applications. U-M students, faculty and staff entered more than 18 apps in three platform categories: iPhone, Android and Web applications.

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Engineering Students Help Cerebral Palsy Patients with iPad App

An iPad app for people with motor skill difficulties to use as an input device for email, text messaging, etc. took second place in the University Mobile Challenge at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

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Michigan Engineer iPad App

The free Michigan Engineer iPad App brings you compelling stories about research, education and people associated with the University of Michigan College of Engineering.

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Doctoral Students and Professors Develop PowerTutor App for Android

The PowerTutor app for Android phones shows how much power other apps are consuming.

4th Annual Mobile Apps Hackathon

U-M students built numerous apps in 48 hours at 4th Annual Mobile Apps Hackathon!

1,000 Pitches Contest

The 1,000 Pitches contest for U-M students ran in Fall of 2011. This year’s competition had nine categories, including Best iPhone app, and garnered over 3,300 pitches. Visit the 1,000 Pitches website to see a gallery of pitches and view the finalists.

In-car Cloud Computing Class for U-M, by Ford

U-M students participated in a 12-week course to explore the potential of connectivity within cars, and six teams presented apps as varied as ridesharing, fuel-tracking, point-of-interest alerts and fellow vehicle tracking.

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Winners of the Fall 2010 U-M Mobile Apps Challenge

The Fall 2010 Mobile Apps Challenge promoted entrepreneurial thinking and encouraged the U-M community to develop innovative mobile applications. U-M students, faculty and staff entered more than 20 apps in four platform categories: iPhone, Android, Windows and Web applications.

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Winners of the Spring 2010 Mobile Apps Challenge

U-M students, faculty and staff entered more than 24 apps in three categories: iPhone, Android and Web applications. The competition was sponsored by Information and Technology Services (ITS) and the office of Technology Transfer.

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U-M Students Develop iPhone app DoGood

A free app that provides a suggestion for your good deed for the day was begun as a U-M student project and grew into the product of a student-run company. The College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship and TechArb, a student-business incubator helped turn the good into goods.

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Ford's SYNC API gets early test by UM-Dearborn students/faculty

Ford's SYNC technology is aimed at in-car voice-controlled smartphone apps, and students and professors at UM-Dearborn have been selected as one of the first groups to adapt SYNC into working applications.

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New Course Creates an iPhone Symphony

An EECS and Music professor has developed a course and offers a concert featuring his students playing a variety of iPhone musical instruments. See a video of a practice performance and read more:

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Computer Science and Engineering Students Developed Mobile and Web App Projects

The first term offering of this now popular U-M class produced great ideas, very good press and a few surviving apps.

EECS 498 - Mobile and Web App Programming - Winter 2009

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