X-Prize Foundation
- Peter Diamandis Founder and CEO
- Robert K. Weiss President and Vice Chairman
No donor specified
The recognized non-profit X Prize Foundation was founded in 1995 by Peter Diamandis. She writes Prices from technical and scientific developments which are mainly financed privately. According to the company 's plan is to encourage the development of industries and create new jobs, and the currently deadlocked markets revive. As a higher target prices are to serve with "radical breakthroughs " the good of humanity.
A significant contribution to the reputation of the Foundation contributed Scaled Composites, emerged in 2004 with SpaceShipOne, the winner of the Ansari X Prize. The aerospace company Virgin Galactic plans to offer based on this technology in the near future, commercial, suborbital space flights.
- 2.2.1 Archon Genomics X Prize
- 2.2.2 Google Lunar X-Prize
- Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize 2.2.3
Background
The X - Prize Foundation was inspired by others, historical prices, the award-winning innovative solutions for technical and scientific problems and challenges.
In the maritime field, the length problem was known for a long time, the exact determination of the longitude on which one finds oneself. In solving this problem several advertised prizes. John Harrison is finally solved the problem.
The most commonly cited as the inspiration for the X - prices price is the Orteig price. In 1919, a native of France New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig the sum of 25,000 dollars to that available, which made it the first in a non-stop flight from New York to Paris or vice versa to fly. To win this $ 25,000 was invested by nine different teams a total of about $ 400,000, until finally Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis was able to claim victory for himself on 20 May 1927. After this event has been growing interest for the aviation industry many times, so the applications rose to a pilot's license or 1927 by 300 percent, the number of passengers of American Airlines grew from 5,782 in 1926 to 173 405 in 1929. Today aviation is a 250 billion U.S. dollar dar. large industrial sector
X-Prize
With these prices as a guide, the X Prize Foundation is now trying at the present time to provide incentives for technical and scientific excellence.
The financing of prices occurs in different ways: The 10 million dollar Ansari X-Prize, the only first X Prize was called, was initially funded by a number of small donations. Only in 2004 the name was changed, which was preceded by a donation in the amount of several millions of Anousheh Ansari and Amir Ansari. For other prices, such as the Google Lunar X Prize, Google the prize money totaling 30 million U.S. dollars. The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, however, the current competition is sponsored by Northrop Grumman, while the prize money from NASA be worn.
Completed
Ansari X-Prize
The Ansari X Prize was the first X - prices. Advertised in 1996 competed at the end of 26 teams to the 10 million U.S. dollar prize, until the team Scaled Composites won it on 4 October 2004. Condition was to achieve within two weeks, with a manned spacecraft twice a height of at least 100 km ( the Kármán line). The spacecraft had to be financed out of private hands and built, as it had to be reusable at least 90 percent.
Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize
The award, worth a total of 10 million U.S. dollars Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize was officially announced on 12 April 2007 at the New York International Auto Show 2007; The winners were announced on 16 September 2010. This award, named after the main sponsor Progressive Insurance, awarded prizes for outstanding technical solutions in the automobile sector. The most important criterion was a low consumption. The winning models had to be implemented as mass production.
Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge
The wife of the computer scientist and manager Eric Schmidt presented on 29 July 2010, the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge, suggested before by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. It officially began on August 1, 2010 and ended on 11 October 2011. The award honors innovative solutions for cleaning Rohölverschmutztem from seawater. The first three teams were 1 million, awarded 300,000 and 100,000 U.S. dollars.
Ongoing
Archon Genomics X Prize
The Archon Genomics X Prize awards a method for fast and accurate DNA sequencing. The prize goes to who will make it to sequence correctly and cost the genomes of 100 people to January 3, 2013 as part of 30 days. Additional conditions are a maximum error rate of 1 per 1,000,000 base pairs and maximum cost of U.S. $ 1,000 per genome. Will be donated to the price of the healthcare company Medco Health Solutions.
The namesake of the prize was the company Archon Minerals Ltd.. , Which funded this back in 2006 and was still presented as a condition decryption of 100 sets of chromosomes in ten days, with a sequencing could not cost more than $ 10,000.
Google Lunar X-Prize
The Google Lunar X Prize was announced on 13 September 2007 on the Wired Next Fest. The main prize of 20 million dollars to win the team to which it succeeds first in placing a probe to land safely on the moon with a rover to cover 500 meters on the surface and to transmit high-definition video to Earth. In addition, may not exceed 10 percent of state investments.
In preparing the price was initially planned to cooperate with NASA, but the American legislation would not have permitted borne by taxpayers' money NASA to pay out prize money to non-US team. This problem was obsolete when Google took over the 30 million U.S. dollars financing of the price.
Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize
10 January 2012 2012 previously announced Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize was launched at CES. Core of three and a half years running competition is to develop a user-friendly, accurate medical diagnosis device. Sponsorship is the 10 million U.S. dollars in prize money by 2010, founded by Qualcomm Qualcomm Foundation. The name comes from the Tricorder Star Trek universe and describes a handy instrument for physical and medical variables.
Planned
In the X - Prize Foundation permanently located several awards at the planning stage. For these prices are still partners are being sought in the rule that provide the funding.
In collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for example, to create a X-Prize, which provides for the development of a better tuberculosis diagnosis.
Board of Trustees
The Foundation is supported by a 28 -member Board of Trustees, called the Board of Trustees passed. The Board consists of: