A number of news organizations reported last week on the announcement of a $3 million prize for predicting hospitalizations. It’s just one in a series of open algorithm-creation contests startup company Kaggle is helping to run to help incentivize predictive analytics. As The Wall Street Journal reported: Amid a larger effort to use medical data to improve health care, one company is trying something new: offering $3 million in prize money for the algorithm that can best predict when people are likely to be sent to the hospital. The algorithm contest, the largest of its kind so far, is part of a trend toward using such prizes to help find the best answers […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for March 24th, 2011
