Make things interesting with a contest, incentive program, or by boosting office morale.
In essence, the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall is a "contest in programming," as Elliott Forrest from WQXR radio put it on Wednesday night in a brief onstage interview with Jacques Lacombe, the music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
The contest involves programming the robot so that it is able to climb into a vehicle, drive to a destination, get out of the vehicle, cross a rubble field, open a door, use a power tool and turn a valve.
Let's pause to see how much of a wink rather than a contest these programs have become.
Its channels rely heavily on reality television and talent contests, including programs like "The X Factor" and the "Idol" and "Got Talent" franchises.
"Shall we get started?" By the time of the first interruption, Bruno had concluded that Stolarsky's game, cobbled though it might be from Internet research and contests with programs, or with players hidden behind their own screens, was not too shabby.
Staff members were educated to use the new computer applications via contests, inservice programs, hands-on learning modules, and a preimplementation rehearsal.
Tom Sarig, below, a talent manager who is one co-founders, says there will be no Shortlist contest or award program this year.
Structured as a contest, the innovative program was aimed at developers where mash-up data and software existed alongside traditional procurement processes.
The now 11-person team includes a Professor of Economics from Tufts, a VP of Engineering who represented Stanford in the ACM programming contest and Putnam, and several winners of MIT's largest programming competitions, he adds.
