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TITLE SLIDE Demo. WHAT IS THE NASA TOURNAMENT LAB? A resource center for contest-based digital productivity. An opportunity to apply “crowdsourcing” to
WHAT IS THE NASA TOURNAMENT LAB? A resource center for
contest-based digital productivity. An opportunity to apply
crowdsourcing to NASA- sourced challenges. A source for assistance
and guidance in employing crowdsourcing. A test-bed for academic
research into crowd motives. A collaboration between government,
business and academia.
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WHO IS THE NTL? Harvard Business School Dr. Karim Lakhani et al
What exactly is the incentive for strangers to contribute their
work? How effective are the outcomes? TopCoder Mike Lydon, CTO,
Andy LaMora, AM, TC Community TopCoder is a community of 420,000
technologists (more on TC in a moment) attracted to unique
problems, cash prizes, self- education, glory, etc. NASA Jason
Crusan Provide a unique and low cost tool that can boost or
accelerate productivity and innovation on demand.
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WHAT IS TOPCODER? Community - Competition - The Platform
420,000+ Members! North America Central America, South America, and
Caribbean Asia Europe Africa Oceania
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HOW DOES TOPCODER WORK? Competition-based productivity Huge
member-base of intelligent and active technologists motivated by:
Cash prizes Recognition Self-education and community-based
education Continuous and substantial feedback Crowdsourcing
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CAPABILITIES Blue highlights indicate NTL challenge domains to
date
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TOPCODER DIVISIONS 3 main divisions 30+ Contests Types Assembly
Development Concepts Design Wireframes Storyboards Prototype
etc
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PHASE ONE In the beginning Developing compelling ideas to
showcase data :: Idea Generation Contest through TopCoder Studio
Address the Technical Solution: Phase One Build infrastructure to
support ideas suggested by the Idea Generation Contest. Built
through many contests Conceptualization: Define the high level
requirements Architecture: Organize the data, define an API
Assemblies: Develop data storage and transformation Release
Assemblies and Bug Races: Add APIs and enhancements
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PHASE TWO Activation and Joy: Phase Two Publish the API Post
new Idea Contests to leverage it. Post Mashup Contests to Prove it.
Competitors can build against the winning Idea Gen submissions Or,
could develop their own ideas Hosted on TopCoder and
NoNameSite
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PARTICIPATION
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RESULTS: COMPARISONS Open Mash-up Development Contest Required
to use API built in previous challenges. Permitted to use other
sources too. $10,000 Prize, 2 weeks #1 requirement was Joy to Use
Catered to Android & iPhone
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RESULTS: TEACHER APPS
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FURTHERING STEM GOALS: NONAMESITE If your goal is to engage
kids, can you source more effective ideas from kids? Posted Two
contests: Idea Generation, Development Idea Generation led to first
PDS Facebook presence. NoNameSite: engage kids in STEM through
community and game-like activities in computational thinking. NNS
Launched Sept. 2011 on a DARPA grant.
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RESULTS: HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPERS
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NEXT STEPS Complete data organization Make all SBN data
accessible via the API Followed by all PDS Facebook? PDS (well,
SBN) is on Facebook now What should the content be and how to
maintain it? Can users friend a comet? Is there a programmatic
solution to be found here? Final Mashup Contest All PDS data
Enhance previous results with new features and capabilites.
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SOME COMMON QUESTIONS Intellectual Property Customers own
winning results of all competitions (TopCoder is IP broker)
Government will accept ownership Or, Government can release via
Open Source licenses (e.g. to Sourceforge) TopCoder Indemnifies for
IP Infringement TopCoder has different levels of member security
Security / Data Privacy Data Randomizing / Scrubbing TopCoder
contests have different levels of member security: Open Contest
Anonymous Contests CCA Contest (NDA) Private Pool (customer
cleared)