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Collectively, X PRIZE's are financial incentives offered by the X Prize Foundation. This foundation is a non-profit prize institute that "creates and manages prizes that drive innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today".
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X PRIZE Foundation
- Based: Santa Monica, California
- Aim: Encourage radical breakthroughs in technology for the benefit of humanity
- Offer millions of dollars in prizes to generate interest and capture the imagination
Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE
- Encourages creation of environmentally-friendly vehicles
- Multi-million-dollar cash prizes
- Aim: Design and build super-efficient marketable vehicles capable of 100 miles per gallon
Ansari X PRIZE
- Offered by X PRIZE Foundation
- $10,000,000 prize
- Aim: Find first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks
- Won: October 4, 2004
- Winner designed by Burt Rutan, financed by Paul Allen
- Winning craft: SpaceShipOne
- $100 million invested in new technologies in relation to the contest
Google Lunar X PRIZE
- Google sponsored the award
- Prize: $20 million to the first non-governmental organization that lands a robot explorer on the Moon by the year 2012
- Second place and bonus prizes of $5 million each also available
Archon X PRIZE
- Full title: The Archon X PRIZE for Genomics
- 2nd X PRIZE offered by the foundation
- Announced: October 4, 2006
- X PRIZE Foundation partnered with J. Craig Venter Science Foundation for the prize
- $10 million prize
- Prize goes to "the first team that can build a device and use it to sequence 100 human genomes within 10 days or less, with an accuracy of no more than one error in every 100,000 bases sequenced, with sequences accurately covering at least 98% of the genome..."
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X Prize Questions
How popular is the Lunar X Prize race to the moon? 1 Answerhttp://fikriadnan.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/luna-x-prize-google-moon.jpg The Google Lunar X PRIZE is really popular! It is a $30 million competition intended ... read more
Should we give $20M loans to each of the top 50 companies in the X Prize instead of a billion to GM? 11 AnswersYes, great idea! The Automotive X-Prize, the foundation of which will award $10 million from Progressive Insurance to the winner of its competition to design a ... read more
if x does not equal 0, is x^20 6 AnswersOk I'm gonna have to go against the grain and say NO. @rickg had it right that if it is a real number, then x^2 > 0. However your question doesn't specify that ... read more
What happened to the prize in business reporting? 1 AnswerI couldn't actually locate a category for "Business" Reporting, but did find the award for journalism covered business related topics: "JOURNALISM: Public Se... read more
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@arcaspace! :D RT: @arcaspace: Which team do you think will win the Google Lunar X PRIZE?A poll on the GLXP website: http://bit.ly/5QySxx
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Which team do you think will win the Google Lunar X PRIZE? A poll on the GLXP website (on down and left of the page) http://bit.ly/092wfy4
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Which team do you think will win the Google Lunar X PRIZE? A poll on the GLXP website (on down and left of the... http://bit.ly/08EWTDK
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Which team do you think will win the Google Lunar X PRIZE? A poll on the GLXP website (on down and left of the... http://bit.ly/5QySxx
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Which team do you think will win the Google Lunar X PRIZE? A poll on the GLXP website (on down and left of the... http://bit.ly/4E6qxP
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