May 8, 2019

The Sociable: Govt Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge offers $250K to predict the future

The Sociable: Govt Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge offers $250K to predict the future. “How many missile test events will North Korea conduct in August 2019? Will there be a locally-transmitted case of the Zika virus in Brazil in July 2019? These are just a couple of the hundreds of sample questions that the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has for its Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge (GFC) 2.”

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February 23, 2019

Techdirt: Announcing The Winners Of The Public Domain Game Jam!

Techdirt: Announcing The Winners Of The Public Domain Game Jam!. “At the beginning of January, we decided to celebrate the long-awaited entry of new works into the public domain with a game jam, inviting designers to submit games of all kinds based on newly-copyright-free works from 1923. We got way more entries than we expected, and handed them off to our huge judging panel of game designers and copyright experts, who left comments and nominated them in our six prize categories. Now we’ve tallied up the votes and reviews, so without further delay, here are the winners of Gaming Like It’s 1923…”

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February 2, 2019

Gaming Like It’s 1923: The Entries Are In (Techdirt)

Techdirt: Gaming Like It’s 1923: The Entries Are In. “At the beginning of the year, we launched our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1923, with a one-month time limit — and now the entries are in! We figured we’d get a dozen entries, maybe two, but we’re with a bunch of last minute entries slipping in under the deadline, we’re thrilled to say we’ve got 35 games based on works that entered the public domain this year. We’ve begun the judging process, with our huge panel of great judges. They need a little time with the games, but until we announce the winners in you can try out all the entries for yourself. “

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January 23, 2019

Flickr Blog: And the winners of Your Best Shot 2018 are…

Flickr Blog: And the winners of Your Best Shot 2018 are…. “In just one month, over 8,000 amazing photos (!!!) were submitted to the Your Best Shot 2018 group. Through our process, we narrowed it down to five winners, photographers whose photos emanate originality, creativity, and technical skill. We’re pleased to announce the winners of Your Best Shot 2018 and know you’ll be just as impressed as we are.”

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June 16, 2018

National Park Foundation: National Park Foundation Announces Pic Your Park Instagram Contest

National Park Foundation: National Park Foundation Announces Pic Your Park Instagram Contest. “A new Instagram contest launched by the National Park Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, is inviting park goers – amateur and experienced – to submit pictures of themselves in national parks for the chance to win a variety of prizes. The contest, called Pic Your Park, is open now through September 28.”

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March 12, 2018

CNET: Google’s March Madness AI contest offers $100,000 in prizes

CNET: Google’s March Madness AI contest offers $100,000 in prizes. “Prizes can be useful incentives. They encourage people to take on challenges, say flying across the Atlantic Ocean or developing a self-driving car or finding large prime numbers. Now, Google has a great big incentive that will get almost the entirety of the country interested: $100,000 in prizes for computer scientists who write the best AI software to predict the outcome of the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament.”

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February 4, 2018

The Graphic City: A photography competition judged by Artificial Intelligence (International Business Times)

International Business Times: The Graphic City: A photography competition judged by Artificial Intelligence. “EyeEm’s patented technology uses machine learning and neural networks to identify not only what of a photograph is of, but also whether it is any good. EyeEm regularly invites its global community of more than 20 million photographers to partake in competitions, or ‘Missions’. These often attract more than 100,000 entries, so it would be a Herculean task for a human judge to even look at every image, let alone make value judgements. However, their AI does this in seconds.”

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October 19, 2017

Library of Congress: Announcing the Library of Congress Congressional Data Challenge

Library of Congress: Announcing the Library of Congress Congressional Data Challenge. “Today we launch a Congressional Data Challenge, a competition asking participants to leverage legislative data sets on congress.gov and other platforms to develop digital projects that analyze, interpret or share congressional data in user-friendly ways. ‘There is so much information now available online about our legislative process, and that is a great thing,’ said Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. ‘But it can also be overwhelming and sometimes intimidating. We are asking citizen coders to explore ways to analyze, interpret or share this information in user-friendly ways. I hope this challenge will spark an interest in the legislative process and also a spirit of information sharing by the tech-savvy and digital humanities pioneers who answer the call. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.’ “

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August 5, 2016

NEH Announces Winners of Chronicling America Challenge

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced the winners of its Chronicling America data challenge. “We invited members of the public to produce creative web-based projects demonstrating the potential for using the data found in Chronicling America. Entries could be data visualizations, web-based tools or other innovative and interesting web-based projects. Entries came through Challenge.gov, the U.S. government’s hub for federal prize and challenge competitions. The nationwide competition garnered extremely high-quality entries on a variety of subjects, which showed the importance of and potential for making this rich historical data openly available.”

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February 5, 2016

Doodle 4 Google State Winners Announced

Google has announced its Doodle 4 Google state winners. “This time around, we added a little twist: for the first time in eight years of Doodle 4 Google, there were no restrictions on the medium or materials kids could use to create a doodle. Kids took us up on the challenge. A quarter of all finalists used some non-traditional media—from clay and wood to origami, photographs and sheets of music—in their submission.”

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November 4, 2015

NEH Launches Chronicling America Contest

Hey! The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a contest to create Web resources based on Chronicling America, the historical newspaper archive. “The Library of Congress has developed a user-friendly Application Program Interface (API) to explore the data contained in Chronicling America data. Entrants must use this API to access the data, but are welcome to use existing software or tools to create their projects, or combine Chronicling America data with other datasets.” Deadline is next July.

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