Sentence examples for contest to improve from inspiring English sources

CDC and challenge contestants plan to build upon the methods developed during this contest to improve the accuracy of influenza forecasts.

Netflix, the movie rental company, announced on Monday that a seven-man team was the winner of its closely watched three-year contest to improve its Web site's movie recommendation system.

We are generally perceived as stuffy starchy stingy also philistine so I dreamt up this song contest to improve the image of this great city of ours and I offer my daughter as wife to the winner.

The New York Times reports today that Netflix is holding a contest to improve their recommendation engine.

As they energetically courted sales to rival foreign airlines, American manufacturers constantly engaged in back-and-forth contests to improve their products.

The Irish were never threatening, or threatened, as the second half became a dour kicking contest "Plenty to improve on but there's no point in getting frustrated.

His research team recently held a three-week-long contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic data.

In the spring of 2007, his sister-in-law e-mailed him an intriguing bit of news: Netflix, the Web-based DVD-rental company, was holding a contest to try to improve Cinematch, its "recommendation engine".

One winner of the conference's research-paper contest this year attempted to improve the concept; Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has tried to use Plus/Minus, while recognizing its flaws.

She noted that McKay even challenged an engineering class with a contest to design improved drainage and irrigation systems, and then implemented the winning design at the farm.

Unfortunately, the contest has done little to improve the site's performance.