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Just glancing through the teams it looks like UCD was the only team with a member (Chun-Yen C) that has industry experience. Everyone else pretty much stayed in

Just glancing through the teams it looks like UCD was the only team with a member (Chun-Yen C) that has industry experience. Everyone else pretty much stayed inside academia. Wonder how much of a factor that was to their success.

TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
The teams were selected to compete. I wonder if a team heavy on industry experience would have been selected compete. Also, I wonder what Amazon gains from this? My cynical hat wants to think Amazon would have made the competitors sight over IP rights etc, but I haven’t looked in to the conditions of the completion so I’m spectacularly. Does anyone know how this is likely to pan out for the students, and not only those who won? Each team was given US$250,000, so it’s sort of paid work? I don’t particularly have a problem with a company fielding skills in that way, just pondering. 1. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/9f406f35-c997-4d17-a6ac-89a35f69b661/announcing-the-2018-alexa-prize-participants https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/9f406f35-c997-...
- ppod 8y ago
  >Amazon would have made the competitors sight over IP rights etc, I would like to know this too. I think that since it is an academic competition, by default everything is open source and the method must be fully outlined in the system description paper, so I don't think IP would be an issue.
  - WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
    Just because something is open source doesn't mean the IP is granted to everyone.