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- Founder: Peter H. Diamandis
- Established: 1994
- HQ: Santa Monica, California
- Mission: To bring radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity[X PRIZE Foundation: Our Mission
- Model: Orteig Prize, which offered $25,000 in 1919 for the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris
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The non-profit X PRIZE Foundation sponsors high-profile competitions to encourage the development of breakthrough technologies for the benefit of humanity. The Foundation awards multi-million dollar prizes in an effort to spur innovation in the fields of education, life sciences, global entrepreneurship and space exploration.
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X Prizes
Ansari X Prize:- Challenge: Construction of a private spaceship
- Prize: $10M
- Winner: Burt Rutan (October 2004)
- Challenge: Successfully sequence 100 anonymous human genomes in 10 days at a recurring cost of no more than $10,000 per genome
- Prize: $10M
- Winner: No winner as of 2009
Progressive Automotive X Prize:
- Challenge: Designing and building a super-efficient, commercially viable vehicle that will achieve 100 MPG
- Prize: $7.5M (mainstream); $2.5 (alternate class)
- Winner: No winner as of 2009
- Challenge: Successfully launching, landing and operating a rover on the lunar surface
- Prize: $20M
- Winner: No winner as of 2009
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X Prize Foundation Questions
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
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
How do you select your correct color of foundation? 4 AnswersYou are supposed to apply it to the back of your hand close to your wrist. I usually go with something that blends well or maybe just a little darker than my ac... 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
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RT @dgmacarthur: RT @genomicslawyer: X Prize Foundation Announces 1st Asia-Based Contender for Genome Sequencing Prize http://bit.ly/2Fc2xp
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Electric Car: Interview with the CEO of the X Prize Foundation - SEMA 2009 http://bit.ly/49RGDZ
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RT @xprize: X PRIZE Foundation Announces First Asia-Based Contender for Genome Sequencing Prize - http://bit.ly/4fy48a
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RT @xprize: X PRIZE Foundation Announces First Asia-Based Contender for Genome Sequencing Prize - http://bit.ly/4fy48a
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RT @xprize: X PRIZE Foundation Announces First Asia-Based Contender for Genome Sequencing Prize - http://bit.ly/4fy48a
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