On Wednesday June 2nd The NY Post ran an article about Alia Sabur, she is a 21 year old Ph.D. student in engineering at Drexel University. She discussed with the NY Post an idea she has for stopping the BP oil spill in the Gulf.
It got me thinking about the contest that Netflix ran in 2006. They awarded $1 million to a team that was able to improve their movie recommendation program by over 10%.
Nobody Asked Me!
Here is an idea for BP. They should offer a $10 million dollar prize to anyone who comes up with an idea that is attempted and ultimately used to stop the spill.
They can put up on their website the specifics of the spill that people can use e.g. depth, size or equipment, water pressure, etc. They can even post ideas that were thought of but not executed and the reasons.
An impartial third party accounting firm can be used to run the contest so that nobody feels like their idea will be ripped off.
It will get a lot of people thinking about solving the problem.
Thank You // Steven N Levy
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