When the Netflix Prize was awarded last month, it ended three years of intense competition aimed at finding a better algorithm for predicting users'...
Who Said Robots Can't Dance? Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili The annual Hexapod dance contest, held at the Hagenberg Campus of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, features...
Peugeot Verde - A Size-Changing Car Thursday, September 25th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop "Peugeot Verde", designed by Michael Witus Schierup from Denmark, is one of the 29 finalists at the 5th Peugeot Design...
New Green Jet Fuel X Prize Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner The U.S. Department of Transportation hopes to excite interest in biofuels to help the ailing airline industry. In order to...
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 - 20:13:56 - Iddo Genuth
Three ECE students will enter their target-shooting robot in a competition that is part of the 16th Annual DEFCON Computer Security Conference at the...
X PRIZE for 'Green' Cars Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 - Noa Rotkop The X PRIZE Foundation recently announced they are sponsoring the newly renamed Progressive Automotive X PRIZE International...
NanoArt 2006-2007 Competition Friday, January 5th, 2007 - Iddo Genuth NanoArt is a recent, novel integration of art and science consisting of reproductions or artistic renderings of electron...
NASA's Space Elevator Competition Friday, October 20th, 2006 - Iddo Genuth The Space Elevator concept appeared for the first time in 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky considered a...