Port Chester News Provider BMN Announces Prize for BMN Audience Profiling Challenge

Port Chester Roundup's Parent Company Behavioral Media Networks offers prize at the AT T Mobile App Hackathon In Austin, Texas Behavioral Media Networks (BMN), a Connecticut based technology company, is happy to announce a $500 prize eligible for all participants during the AT T Mobile App Hackathon, taking place from June 14-15, 2013 in Austin, Texas. This comes as part of BMN's continuous efforts to encourage constant innovation and development to attain more meaningful and insightful social interactions. The prize will go to the team that imagines the most useful application of BMN's Cognitive Insight components that can deliver compelling user experiences based on psychographic information inferred from user-generated text. Some sample apps include: Cofounder selection, Marketing and Advertising, Human Resources Screening, Dating, and Content filtering. Kathy Wirt, BMN's Chief Product Officer said, "We felt it important for us, to contribute to this innovative and fun event, by offering a prize of our own that complements AT T's efforts to help accelerate developers' towards a successful technology product." The BMN team will be at the event next week to launch and showcase the exciting workings of Cognitive Insights to all attendees. Even BMN's VP of Engineering, Robert Decker, has been asked to be one of the key speakers. The AT T Mobile App Hackathon is an event produced by the AT T Developer Program that is designed for attendees (technical non-technical) to build applications/mobile apps, and compete for prizes across different categories. Most importantly, it introduces the latest cutting edge tools while providing a great space for similar minds to meet. Learn more at: http://www.bmedianet.com/api.html ABOUT BEHAVIORAL MEDIA NETWORKS Behavioral Media Networks (BMN) is a spin-off of the Mind Machine Project (MMP) at MIT. Our focus involves commercializing cognitive modeling technologies for predicting behavior in social media and other behavioral networks. We are helping major institutions generate behavioral insights from large, unstructured datasets. We're also developing a suite of consumer applications to make social interactions more meaningful. www.bmedianet.com



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