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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...

GLASTONBURY, Conn., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest Open Innovation competitive Community of digital creators, today announced that a leading global Internet company DeNA Co., Ltd. has become a sponsor of the 2012 TopCoder Open (TCO), the world's foremost competitive computer programming and creative design tournament. The 2012 TopCoder Open is a worldwide programming and designing tournament covering six competition tracks: Algorithm, Design,...

GLASTONBURY, Conn., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest Open Innovation Community of digital creators, today announced that it has reached a major milestone as the TopCoder and TopCoder Studio global Community of registered members officially surpassed the 400,000 mark. The Community is comprised of professionals and students with expertise and interest in a wide variety of fields including analytics and algorithms, computer science, physics,...

GLASTONBURY, Conn., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators in partnership with Harvard Business School and the U.S. Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (COECI), today announced the opening of registration for the second in a series of phased innovation competitions to develop new algorithms that can automatically identify and locate specific elements within millions of patent documents for the...

GLASTONBURY, Conn., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators and MIT, today announced registration has opened for the Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, an algorithm competition from Zero Robotics which seeks computationally efficient code solutions for a hypothetical mission scenario which models autonomous docking or satellite servicing procedures. The online challenge is open to all eligible participants but...

GLASTONBURY, Conn., March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators, today announced that it has been honored by the Department of Veterans Affairs for its contribution to a new program that will make it easier for military veterans to document the skills they learned in uniform for civilian employers and higher education. TopCoder has been awarded $25,000 to help implement and support full development of the...

GLASTONBURY, Conn., Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators, today announced that that Facebook and Google have become sponsors of the 2012 TopCoder Open, the world's foremost competitive computer programming and creative design tournament. Both organizations have previously sponsored TopCoder Opens. The 2012 TopCoder Open is a world-wide programming and designing tournament covering six competition tracks:...

GLASTONBURY, Conn., Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the world's largest competitive Community of digital creators, today announced that it will be exhibiting at booth #106 at this year's 2012 SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX. The TopCoder booth will be open for visitors and demos during regular show hours. Located in Exhibit Hall 4, booth #106 is between the Trinity Street and 4th Street entrances on the first floor of the Austin Convention Center....