Four SMU students will fly to Facebook's headquarters in Silicon Valley, California in November to represent Asia in an international "hackathon". The contest involves teams brainstorming ideas and programming computers to create a working product within a short time span. Alayne Pang, 23; Xu Mengxiang, 25; Suresh Subramaniam, 21; and Abhilash Murthy, 22; edged out 19 other teams from the Asia-Pacific region in a hackathon in Singapore last month, and will represent Asia in the finals. The hackathon saw 20 teams given 24 hours to come up with a solution to a problem of their choice. The SMU students from the School of Information Systems spent a sleepless night creating a Web application called Graph-paper, which allows users to perform detailed Facebook searches so they can better plan for or enjoy gatherings.