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New Starting Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Details Best Practices for Maximizing Business Goals GLASTONBURY, Conn., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest open innovation platform and competitive community of almost half a million digital creators, today announced the launch of a new eBook, 10 Burning Questions: Your New Starting Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Success, a free, interactive guide to best practices in achieving...

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...

Earth Advantage Institute, the owner of CakeSystems software, has recently hired Michael Atkins as technology solutions manager and Ned Stuart as junior Java developer. The newly formed positions will help meet the growing demand of CakeSystems’ home energy auditing software throughout the U.S. Portland, OR (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 As Junior Java Developer for EAI’s software development department, Ned will focus on Java-based projects associated with CakeSystems software and other...

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...

NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy announced Wednesday the launch of the Big Data Challenge, a series of competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL). The Big Data Challenge series will apply the process of open innovation to conceptualizing new and novel approaches to using "big data" information sets from various U.S. government agencies. This data comes from the fields of health, energy and Earth science. Competitors will be tasked with...

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...