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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.

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.

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

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”

CAPABILITIES Blue highlights indicate NTL challenge domains to date

TOPCODER DIVISIONS 3 main divisions 30+ Contests Types Assembly Development Concepts Design Wireframes Storyboards Prototype etc

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

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

PARTICIPATION

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

RESULTS: TEACHER APPS

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 on a DARPA grant.

RESULTS: HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPERS

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.

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)