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Competition Platform Building on Measureable Successes, High Value Returns from Previous Challenges, Puts Sights on Visual Recognition for Robonaut 2 GLASTONBURY, Conn., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest open innovation platform and competitive community of 470,000 digital creators, today announced two new marathon competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) that will look to continue delivery of output-based high value returns in the...
TopCoder Partners with USAID and Humanity United - Competition Tasks Data Scientists to Develop New Statistical Analytics Solutions with the Potential to Predict Areas at Greater Risk for Genocide, Mass Rape and Ethnic Cleansing GLASTONBURY, Conn., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest open innovation platform and competitive community of digital creators, today announced the launch of a new predictive algorithm competition to support the Tech Challenge...
GLASTONBURY, Conn., Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest open innovation platform and competitive community of digital creators, today launched the first two of a series of open innovation challenges to create a new dietary tracking application for use by astronauts in an International Space Station (ISS) -type environment. The ISS FIT (Food Intake Tracker) iPad App Conceptualization and Voice Command Idea Generation and other competitions are now open...
GLASTONBURY, Conn., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., today announced the publication of a study that details how a potential shift in the way basic science is conducted can be achieved using a community-based open innovation platform to solve complex biological problems more quickly than traditional approaches and at a fraction of the current cost. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080820/NYW078LOGO)(Photo:...
GLASTONBURY, Conn., Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators, today announced the Longeron Shadowing Optimization Challenge, a $30,000, open to the public competition to make the energy-gathering solar arrays of the International Space Station (ISS) more efficient by eliminating the shadows it casts upon itself at different points during orbit. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please...
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators, today announced the champions for the 2012 TopCoder Open, the world's foremost competitive programming and digital asset creation tournament. The TopCoder Open is a world-wide programming and designing tournament covering six competition tracks: Algorithm, Design, Development, Marathon, Mod Dash, and Studio Design with hundreds of thousands in cash awards...
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators today announced the launch of the Big Data Challenge - a series of ideation competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) to create mobile applications that integrate across multiple United States agencies data repositories related to the field of health, energy and earth sciences. Competitors will be tasked with imagining tools and techniques that...
GLASTONBURY, Conn., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators, today announced that the next Zero Robotics High School Tournament will take place this Fall, offering high school students the opportunity to design experiments that will be tested in space. The popular Zero Robotics program, created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Space...
GLASTONBURY, Conn., June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest Community of digital creators for open innovation today announced company Founder and Chairman Jack Hughes will provide a preview of the company's new methodology and platform for Enterprise Open Innovation (EOI) at the MIX Mashup in San Francisco on June 19th. Hughes will preview the powerful nature of EOI as a new management model driven by value chains which share benefits amongst...
GLASTONBURY, Conn., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected the TopCoder Open Innovation platform to launch a Challenge series of competitions to develop applications capable of reducing inefficiency, improving quality and lowering overall cost of the screening process at the state and national level of the public...
