Archive for May 23rd, 2011

 

Get $1 Million — If You Engineer the Best Product Recommendation Algorithm

May 23rd, 2011
RecLab Prize (image courtesy overstockreclabprize.com)

"How do you get people to buy more? That's the $1 million question -- literally." RichRelevance and Overstock.com have partnered to offer the first-ever RecLab Prize on Overstock.com -- up to $1 million in cash to the person or team capable of building the most powerful online product recommendation engine: The Prize provides a cash award totaling up ...

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NIH Holding Crowdsourcing Workshop This Summer

May 23rd, 2011
Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation

A number of agencies within the NIH have come together to announce a one-day meeting on "Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation," to be held on the NIH grounds in Bethesda, MD, July 18, 2011.  The goal of the meeting is to lay the foundation for running successful challenges in biomedical and health ...

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