The Alexa Prize
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The Alexa Prize
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#3I'm curious why only students can apply? Why not allow individual developers or companies as well?
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#4I'm curious why only students can apply? Why not allow individual developers or companies as well?
Because Amazon wants good PR and university pipelines for promising future employees, not subsidized contractors.
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#5I think this program is great and similarly reminds me of Google Summer of Code. The biggest deficiency I see with new engineers is lack of real experience. GSOC, this Amazon program, these give students the chance to build a real thing that does something. Too many students come out of school with their theoretical assignments completed, and basic hello world programs.
I hope Amazon receives great submissions from this!
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#6The intellectual property section towards the end of the rules[1] seems noteworthy (though not unexpected).
>Each Entrant hereby grants Sponsor and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free license to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, license, exploit, promote, reproduce, make available, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, and otherwise exercise all intellectual property and other rights in and to any concepts, works, inventions, information, designs, programs, or software that Entrant or his or her Entrant Team develop or submit in connection with the Competition or the creation of the Socialbot, including any of the foregoing included or described in any Technical Article or other materials provided to Sponsor.
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#7I guess they wont be sharing the dataset of actual alexa searches so far.
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#8I'm curious why only students can apply? Why not allow individual developers or companies as well?
Think about what Amazon's turnover must be compared to other companies'.
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#9I guess they wont be sharing the dataset of actual alexa searches so far.
Geez, I hope not. Remember the disaster when AOL Research thought releasing search history was a good idea?
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#10The intellectual property section towards the end of the rules[1] seems noteworthy (though not unexpected). >Each Entrant hereby grants Sponsor and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free license to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, license, exploit, promote, reproduce, make available, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of,…
So if you have something capable of winning this prize, how much more would it be worth to keep it?