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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 NASA-sourced challenges. A source for assistance and guidance in employing crowdsourcing .

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  1. Title Slide Demo

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. What IS TOPCODER? North America Asia Central America, South America, and Caribbean Europe Community - Competition - The Platform Africa 420,000+ Members! Oceania

  5. 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”

  6. Capabilities Blue highlights indicate NTL challenge domains to date

  7. Topcoder Divisions Assembly Development 3 main divisions Concepts 30+ Contests Types Design Wireframes Storyboards Prototype etc

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Participation

  11. 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

  12. Results: teacher apps

  13. Furthering stem goals: nonamesite NoNameSite: engage kids in STEM through community and game-like activities in computational thinking. NNS Launched Sept. 2011 on a DARPA grant. • 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.

  14. Results: high school developers

  15. 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.

  16. 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)

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