GLASTONBURY, Conn. — TopCoder, Inc., the world’s largest open innovation platform and competitive community of digital creators, today launched the first two of a series of open innovation challenges to create a new dietary tracking application for use by astronauts in an International Space Station (ISS) -type environment.
These are the first two of multiple phases of the challenge which will build a fully functioning iPad application from concept to deployment using TopCoder’s open innovation Community and process.
The complete challenge series is sponsored by NASA through its NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), an online virtual facility that harnesses the capabilities of the TopCoder Community to create innovative, efficient solutions for specific, real-world challenges being faced by the space agency.