V.C. Nation: Silicon Valley Meets âAmerican Idolâ With Prizes to Inspire Inventors
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Venture capital firms are considering contests with multimillion-dollar prizes for engineers and entrepreneurs who come up with innovative technologies.
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The most promising young innovators studying information technology (IT) from around the globe will gather on March 12-16, 2007 in Tokyo for the 31st annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by IBM.
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The Zend Developer Zone has both announced a winner for their ZendCon commercial contest and posted another contest on their site today:   Now for our grand prize winner, a free ticket to ZendCon '07: Chris McKinney [with his slogan to end the commercial] 'a shiny badge with your name on it!'   The next contest follows in a similar theme, but this time the prize at stake is three free nights at the hotel where the conference is being held, the Hyatt Burlingame. Entering this contest is even easier than the last one - especially if you're already headed to the conference. All you have to do is register before September 12th - it's that easy!
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If you build it, or in the case of Circuit City's Web site, re-build it, they won't necessarily come. So, to ensure visits to the new CircuitCity.com, the electronics retailer yesterday started rolling out a multimedia push that promotes a "Plasma Screen TV Makeover" online contest that carries a grand prize of five flat-screen TVs and home-theater equipment worth &#36;20,000.
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Can a rebel band of scientists pool patented innovation techniques and give them away through the internet? By David Cohn.
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Is NVE's technology a nanomaker or a nanofaker?
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Attention, inventive Americans: ABC's "American Inventor" is embarking on its second-season search for you.
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By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 5--Silicon Valley is so yesterday.   Today, the top place for technology companies is the Research Triangle Park region.
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Silicon Valley is a collection of remarkably local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams.
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The last summer before college is full of possibilities. George Hotz, a slight, curly-haired teenager in Glen Rock, N.J., spent it taking on two of the largest corporations in the US technology industry, and winning.
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Inspired by âAmerican Idol,â voter-based competitions are proliferating in every corner of the entertainment world.
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Four companies based in the northwest suburbs recently received innovation awards from the Smaller Business Association of New England, a trade group headquartered in Waltham. They are: Ahura Scientific Inc. of Wilmington, an optical technology specialist; Volicon Inc. of Burlington, a supplier of broadcast technologies for streaming video content; SupplyScape Corp. of Woburn, whose software products are aimed at helping ...
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An academic real world -- plus, a chance to win $1,000.
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From Wired Geekipedia: The X Prize is only the beginning. Half a dozen other sizeable purses await those who aspire to tech glory.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Engineers Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge had drafted a business plan that they promised would roil the U.S. microchip industry. Using blueprints they allegedly stole from their Silicon Valley employer, the men proposed to reproduce a super-fast chip in China at a much lower cost.
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The annual Technology, Entertainment and Design celebrity-brainiac confab kicks off Wednesday in Monterey, California. Get ready for some high-level memes and plenty of celebrity sightings. By Kim Zetter.
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.