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Are companies allowed to compete in the DIADEM Challenge?

April 26, 2017allowed challenge companies compete diadem

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Are companies allowed to compete in the DIADEM Challenge?

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A. The goal of the competition is to encourage development of new software, by companies as well as non-profits. If companies write new software for the competition, as we hope they will, the confidentiality and IP issues should be much more manageable than they would be for existing commercial software packages. At the same time, in our experience the currently-available commercial software does not perform as well as the research community would like. Hence we do not expect existing commercial software packages entering the competition without additional development.