Team created original culturally focused mobile applications.
Khalifa University students competed successfully in the Mobile Application Contest (MAC2015) on April 19 2015. First place went to the “AirBook: Augmented Immersive Reality Book” app from Mohammed Wael Bazzaza and Mona Al Zubaidi. Second place went to Fahad Al Shaibani for a “Diabetic Foot Detector” app.
A total of 21 one apps were submitted from seven universities across the UAE.
Organized annually by Khalifa University MAC requires student teams to submit original culturally focused apps. The contest fosters the creation of innovative mobile applications and provides participants with an opportunity to develop and demonstrate mobile computing skills. Select participants are offered business development assistance to transform applications into commercial products.
“Khalifa University has been successfully running this competition since 2006 ” said Khalifa University Executive Vice President Dr. Arif Al Hammadi. “And every year we see technologies advance 
with more submissions and increasingly innovative apps some of which were adopted commercially by different industries. Innovation entrepreneurship and creativity are the keys to the development of the knowledge economy and the achievement of the National Innovation Strategy and by challenging youths with exciting competitive contests such as MAC we are driving them to excel and to invent. It is Khalifa University’s goal to foster the research and development environment in the UAE and organizing events like this one are an important way in which we do that.”
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Team created original culturally focused mobile applications.
Khalifa University students competed successfully in the Mobile Application Contest (MAC2015) on April 19 2015. First place went to the “AirBook: Augmented Immersive Reality Book” app from Mohammed Wael Bazzaza and Mona Al Zubaidi. Second place went to Fahad Al Shaibani for a “Diabetic Foot Detector” app.
A total of 21 one apps were submitted from seven universities across the UAE.
Organized annually by Khalifa University MAC requires student teams to submit original culturally focused apps. The contest fosters the creation of innovative mobile applications and provides participants with an opportunity to develop and demonstrate mobile computing skills. Select participants are offered business develop ment assistance to transform applications into commercial products.
“Khalifa University has been successfully running this competition since 2006 ” said Khalifa University Executive Vice President Dr. Arif Al Hammadi. “And every year we see technologies advance with more submissions and increasingly innovative apps some of which were adopted commercially by different industries. Innovation entrepreneurship and creativity are the keys to the development of the knowledge economy and the achievement of the National Innovation Strategy and by challenging youths with exciting competitive contests such as MAC we are driving them to excel and to invent. It is Khalifa University’s goal to foster the research and development environment in the UAE and organizing events like this one are an important way in which we do that.”
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