A 30-day GIS challenge has garnered an excited, international following on Twitter after a Finnish geographer proposed different ways to display data for each day in November. The #30DayMapChallenge ...

On Sept. 28, 2006, when the Knight Foundation launched the Knight News Challenge — its five-year attempt to harness the best ideas in journalism innovation through an annual contest — the global ...

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, has selected its winners from its crowd-sourced Multi-View Stereo 3-D Mapping Challenge—a contest to see who could best convert ...

Aerial view of the damaged Mississippi Gulf Coast. Mississippi suffered extensive damage from the storm surge and high winds of hurricane Katrina. (Marty Bahamonde/FEMA) The Defense Innovation Unit is ...

IARPA has launched its Multi-View Stereo 3D Mapping Challenge, inviting the broader research community of industry and academia, with or without experience in multiview satellite imagery, to ...

Nine teams, armed with robots, tracking software and systems will descend on an old Colorado mine for the next leg of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's competition to develop technology ...