Google Announces Project 10^100 Winners

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 24, 2010 @05:59AM from the bet-you'd-forgotten-about-this dept.

Kilrah_il writes with news that Google has selected winners for Project 10^100, a contest to find the best ideas to change the world. Among the winners is the Khan Academy, which we've discussed previously. Google is "providing $2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages." The other winning projects are: FIRST, an organization fostering math and science education through team competition; Public.Resource.Org, a government transparency effort focused on online access to public documents; Shweeb, a silly-looking method of human-powered urban transit; and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, a center aimed at promoting graduate-level math and science education in Africa.

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Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-24 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

KHAAAAN!
1. Re:Obligatory by Spazntwich · 2010-09-24 06:12 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I didn't believe Google had really gone evil until I learned they're funding the imperial agenda of science fiction villains.
10^100 Winners by bblount · 2010-09-24 06:18 · Score: 3, Funny

With 10^100 winners it brings a whole new meaning to 'everyone's a winner!'
Re:Just curious... by Nerdfest · 2010-09-24 07:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Because:

Microsoft wouldn't know a good idea if it bit them on the ass these days.
Oracle has contests like this and then they try to figure out ways to sue the winners.
Steve Jobs thinks everyone else's ideas suck.

I kid ... mostly.