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Winners of IBM’s Call for Code Comtest Seek to Save Firefighters’ Lives | Digital Trends

No one doubts that firefighters have an incredibly tough job. When your occupation explicitly requires you to go into places everyone else is desperately trying to flee, you know you’re performing a service few people would be capable of. But could technology help make firefighters’ jobs a bit less dangerous? That’s the hope of Prometeo, a Spanish team that has won IBM’s Call for Code 2019 competition.

The contest, which received 5,000 entries from 165 nations, aims to create and deploy open-source technologies to tackle some of humanity’s biggest challenges. “[Call for Code is] a perfect balance between technology and helping others,” Josep Ràfols, team captain of Prometeo, told Digital Trends. The team was announced as the contest winners at a special event in New York City on Saturday, October 12. Read more…