The Y-Prize Competition: An Inverted X-Prize Competition for Commercializing University Research

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Hayward ◽  
Michelle Eckert ◽  
Justin Thomas ◽  
Mickey Whitzer ◽  
Saikat Chaudhuri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
University Research ◽  
Problem Space ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Prize Competition ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Human Powered

We have seen an increase in engineering competitions for high school and collegiate students ranging from concrete canoes [1] to human powered vehicles [2], FIRST Robotics [3] to iGem [4], and hackathons to business plan competitions. Each of these efforts challenges students to develop new ideas, methodologies, technologies, and designs to solve problems. Indeed, on a larger scale, X-Prize competitions foster innovation by getting top inventors to compete against one another to create solution methodologies in specific problem domains (e.g., automotive, space, or genomics). We have developed the Y-Prize competition that flips the X-Prize structure by challenging students to innovate in the problem space instead of the solution space. In the problem space, students compete to develop the best applications for technological solutions that have been developed in university research laboratories. The three goals of the Y-Prize competition are: a) Expose a wide range of students in and outside engineering to emerging technology and to shine the spotlight on the opportunities in research labs on campus; b) Educate university students on the challenges inherent with technology transfer in research laboratories and engage them in technological innovation; and c) Develop and evaluate a new methodology for innovation based on cutting-edge university research which dramatically increases the number of students engaged in technology transfer.

scholarly journals Syllabification of the Divine Comedy

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Andrea Asperti ◽  
Stefano Dal Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Text Processing ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Assisted Analysis

We provide a syllabification algorithm for the Divine Comedy using techniques from probabilistic and constraint programming. We particularly focus on the synalephe , addressed in terms of the "propensity" of a word to take part in a synalephe with adjacent words. We jointly provide an online vocabulary containing, for each word, information about its syllabification, the location of the tonic accent, and the aforementioned synalephe propensity, on the left and right sides. The algorithm is intrinsically nondeterministic, producing different possible syllabifications for each verse, with different likelihoods; metric constraints relative to accents on the 10th, 4th, and 6th syllables are used to further reduce the solution space. The most likely syllabification is hence returned as output. We believe that this work could be a major milestone for a lot of different investigations. From the point of view of digital humanities it opens new perspectives on computer-assisted analysis of digital sources, comprising automated detection of anomalous and problematic cases, metric clustering of verses and their categorization, or more foundational investigations addressing, e.g., the phonetic roles of consonants and vowels. From the point of view of text processing and deep learning, information about syllabification and the location of accents opens a wide range of exciting perspectives, from the possibility of automatic learning syllabification of words and verses to the improvement of generative models, aware of metric issues, and more respectful of the expected musicality.

scholarly journals From the Editor

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
John C. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Industrial And Organizational Psychology

The goal of focal articles in Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice is to present new ideas or different takes on existing ideas and stimulate a conversation in the form of comment articles that extend the arguments in the focal article or that present new ideas stimulated by those articles. The two focal articles in this issue stimulated a wide range of reactions and a good deal of constructive input.

scholarly journals From the Editor

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-328
Author(s):  
John C. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Industrial And Organizational Psychology

The goal of focal articles in Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice is to present new ideas or different takes on existing ideas and stimulate a conversation in the form of comment articles that extend the arguments in the focal article or that present new ideas stimulated by those articles. The two focal articles in this issue stimulated a wide range of reactions and a good deal of constructive input.

scholarly journals Design Pattern as a Bridge Between Problem-Space and Solution-Space

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Jan Marco Leimeister ◽  
Ernestine Dickhaut ◽  
Andreas Janson
Keyword(s):  
Design Pattern ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Problem Space

scholarly journals On the formation of the phenomenon of the power of the moscow dynasty through the prism of historical anthropology (late 14th – first half of the 15th centuries)

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Maksim N. Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of the formation of the ideology of the Moscow principality. The purpose of this study is to identify the ideological origins and features of the formation of the ideology of the rule of the Moscow sovereigns at the end of the XIV the first half of the XV centuries. To achieve this goal, the historian, firstly, draws on a wide range of sources, which will demonstrate the scale of changes in the theoretical foundations and ways of representing the power of the Moscow princes; secondly, the author took the principles of studying the phenomenon of power formulated by representatives of the Russian direction of historical anthropology as the basis for the research program of this article. Using the advantages of the existing approach, the researcher determined which ideas, images, forms and mechanisms were used to consolidate in the minds of contemporaries new ideas about the constantly expanding powers of power of the Moscow princes. The article concludes that the created great-power image of the Moscow rulers laid the ideological foundation for the growth of the political power of the Moscow principality.

scholarly journals Preface. The XIV International Research and Practice Conference “Ukrainian School of Mining Engineering” (USME 2020)

2020 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 00001
Author(s):  
Gennadiy Pivnyak ◽  
Volodymyr Bondarenko ◽  
Iryna Kovalevska ◽  
Roman Lysenko ◽  
Olha Malova
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mining Engineering ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
Labor Safety ◽  
Important Means ◽  
New Generation

The XIV International Research and Practice Conference “Ukrainian School of Mining Engineering” once again has made an important contribution to the mining industry, science and education. In the course of the conference, a wide range of problems was discussed: theoretical aspects of mining; domestic and foreign experience; personnel training in modern realities; problems of mineral deposits development; fundamental concepts of labor safety, etc. Fruitful dialogue and exchange of experience among conference participants contribute to the generation of new ideas, discoveries, technologies that will find their application in the nearest future. The formation of a new generation of scientists and engineers is taking place today, and therefore this representative conference is an important means of creating a new intellectual environment. The conference promotes the establishment of effective contacts between representatives of different scientific schools and directions, and the acquisition of invaluable experience and practice by researchers.

MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS BACKGROUND AND FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVEMENT IN THE DIGITAL ERA

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Health Access ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Problem Space ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
Online Access ◽  
Mental Health Access

Mental Health consists of a wide range of conditions affecting an individual’s behavior, mood, and thinking. A gap between providers and consumers exists due to the lack of resources available for online mental health access. Research shows limited information available for processing information and pursuing professional services to become healthy. The purpose of this literature review is to provide framework that contributes to Mental Health online access and improving digital therapy. Suggested approaches listed in addition to graphics that summarize the problem space and provide potential solutions.

Reformation, Resistance, and Reason of State (1517-1625)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Mortimer
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Reason Of State ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas

The period 1517–1625 was crucial for the development of political thought. During this time of expanding empires, religious upheaval, and social change, new ideas about the organization and purpose of human communities began to be debated. In particular, there was a concern to understand the political or civil community as bounded, limited in geographical terms and with its own particular structures, characteristics, and history. There was also a growing focus, in the wake of the Reformation, on civil or political authority as distinct from the church or religious authority. To explain these new ideas about political power, the concept of sovereignty began to be used, alongside a new language of reason of state. Yet political theories based upon religion still maintained significant traction, particularly claims for the divine right of kings. In the midst of these developments, the language of natural law became increasingly important as a means of legitimizing political power; natural law provided a rationale for earthly authority that was separate from Christianity and its use enabled new arguments for religious toleration. This book offers a new reading of early modern political thought, drawing on a wide range of sources from Europe and beyond. It makes connections between Christian Europe and the Muslim societies that lay to its south and east, showing the extent to which concerns about the legitimacy of political power were shared. It demonstrates that the history of political thought can both benefit from, and remain distinctive within, the wider field of intellectual history.

scholarly journals A Computational Study of the Effect of Experience on Problem/Solution Space Exploration in Teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Marija Majda Perisic ◽  
Tomislav Martinec ◽  
Mario Storga ◽  
John S Gero
Keyword(s):  
Computational Study ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Problem Space ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper presents the results of computational experiments aimed at studying the effect of experience on design teams’ exploration of problem-solution space. An agent-based model of a design team was developed and its capability to match theoretically-based predictions is tested. Hypotheses that (1) experienced teams need less time to find a solution and that (2) in comparison to the inexperienced teams, experienced teams spend more time exploring the solution-space than the problem-space, were tested. The results provided support for both of the hypotheses, demonstrating the impact of learning and experience on the exploration patterns in problem and solution space, and verifying the system's capability to produce the reliable results.

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