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Agriculture

The cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms.
3 challenges
12 responses under revision
14 responses published
5 contributors

[U.S. Crop Production]

Help author questions forecasting U.S. crop production.

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U.S. Crop Production

Help author questions forecasting crop production in the U.S.

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[Agriculture]

Identify questions related to forecasting agricultural events in 2014.

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Biology & Medicine

Organisms, genetics, and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
7 challenges
12 responses under revision
9 responses published
8 contributors

[Pathogens]

This challenge focuses on any advancements related to pathogens.

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Meeting International Public Health Targets

This challenge will look at some of the targets that have been set, focusing on those related to controlling and eliminating certain infectious diseases, but also looking at international public health frameworks and health systems capacities.

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Outbreaks of infectious diseases

These questions focus on predicting the spread of infectious diseases

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Ocean Biodiversity

Questions related to discovery, extinction or health of oceanic life

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General Medicine

This challenge relates to developments in medicine in general.

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Healthcare

Seeking questions pertaining to healthcare coverage, quality of care, outcome measures, costs, or other topics pertaining to the healthcare system

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Health Technology

Seeking questions about the technology that will revolutionize healthcare and what the new system will look like.

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Business of Science and Technology

The commercialization of scientific and technical knowledge.
3 challenges
2 responses under revision
0 responses published
3 contributors

Healthcare

Seeking questions pertaining to healthcare coverage, quality of care, outcome measures, costs, or other topics pertaining to the healthcare system

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Health Technology

Seeking questions about the technology that will revolutionize healthcare and what the new system will look like.

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Careers in Chemistry

Let's try to understand the future of the chemistry workforce. Some data sources include the annual ACS Salary Surveys, NSF surveys, and the BLS. What do you want to know about the future employment landscape?

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Chemistry

The composition, properties, and behavior of matter.
1 challenge
1 response under revision
0 responses published
2 contributors

Careers in Chemistry

Let's try to understand the future of the chemistry workforce. Some data sources include the annual ACS Salary Surveys, NSF surveys, and the BLS. What do you want to know about the future employment landscape?

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Computational Sciences

The construction of models and analysis techniques to analyze and solve problems.
2 challenges
9 responses under revision
5 responses published
2 contributors

Chess

Questions related to human and computer chess

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Supercomputing

Predict the future evolution of supercomputing technology

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Energy

Resources and technologies used to generate or transform energy.
3 challenges
2 responses under revision
1 response published
2 contributors

Battery Technology

Questions about the science and technology of advancements in battery technology

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Solar Energy

This challenge is concerned with all aspects of solar energy

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Biofuels/Biomass

This challenge is concerned with all aspects of biofuel and biomass technology

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Engineered Technologies

The development and implementation of materials and technologies by the methods of engineering science.
4 challenges
5 responses under revision
10 responses published
5 contributors

XPrize

Help author questions related to active and future X-Prize contests.

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Nanotechnology

Help author questions forecasting developments in nanotechnology

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Health Technology

Seeking questions about the technology that will revolutionize healthcare and what the new system will look like.

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Supercomputing

Predict the future evolution of supercomputing technology

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Global Change

Planetary-scale changes and how the Earth system’s constituent parts, including man, influence one another.
5 challenges
10 responses under revision
9 responses published
10 contributors

[Climate Change]

Identify questions related to climate change in 2014.

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[State of the Cryosphere]

Help author questions forecasting global sea ice extent and concentration.

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U.S. Climate Change

Identify questions related to U.S. climate change in 2014.

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Meeting International Public Health Targets

This challenge will look at some of the targets that have been set, focusing on those related to controlling and eliminating certain infectious diseases, but also looking at international public health frameworks and health systems capacities.

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Ocean Biodiversity

Questions related to discovery, extinction or health of oceanic life

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Information Systems

Complementary networks of hardware and software that are used to collect, filter, process, create, and distribute data.
4 challenges
1 response under revision
4 responses published
1 contributor

Internet connected devices

This challenge examines status and growth in the number of individual devices connected to the internet

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Social Media

This challenge is concerned with all aspects of social media technology

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Health Technology

Seeking questions about the technology that will revolutionize healthcare and what the new system will look like.

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Supercomputing

Predict the future evolution of supercomputing technology

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Mathematics

The resolution of conjectures by mathematical proof.
1 challenge
0 responses under revision
4 responses published
0 contributors

Conjectures & Theorems

This challenge relates to mathematical conjectures and theorems

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Physics

Matter and its motion through space and time.
3 challenges
0 responses under revision
0 responses published
0 contributors

Particle Physics

This challenge is concerned with all aspects of particle physics

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Quantum computing

This challenge related to all aspects of quantum computing.

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General Physics

This challenge is concerned with physics-related technologies in general.

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Social Sciences

Society, its systems and the relationships among individuals within a society.
0 challenges
0 responses under revision
0 responses published
0 contributors

Space Sciences

Celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth. Transportation Technologies and systems used in transporting man and materials.
4 challenges
2 responses under revision
12 responses published
5 contributors


[Chinese Lunar Exploration Program]

Create questions to predict the outcomes of China's emerging lunar exploration program such as to track the progress of the Chang'e 3 lunar rover mission and the program's long term contributions to China's economy.

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Extrasolar Discoveries

Observations and discoveries of phenomena outside our solar system

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Space Exploration

Transportation Technologies and systems used to explore space.

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Transportation

Technologies and systems used in transporting man and materials.
1 challenge
2 responses under revision
6 responses published
4 contributors


Unassigned

This topic holds any challenges that have yet to be categorized.
28 challenges
168 responses under revision
201 responses published
25 contributors

BAE Questions - old form

These are questions posted by the BAE team using the old form

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[STEM Education]

This is about science, technology, engineering, math education

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[Big Data]

This challenge involves any scientific field of study that includes large data sets that require terabytes of data.

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[Direct-to-Consumer Genomics]

This challenge focuses on commercial, public access to genomics information.

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[Autonomous Systems]

Questions related to the field of Autonomous Systems

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[Social Sciences]

Society and Technology, Socio-Technological Systems, Social Innovations, Impact of Technologies in Society

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Study 2.1-B

Questions on price/unit and production/sales of technologies

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[X-Prize]

Help author questions related to active and future X-Prize contests.

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[Nanotechnology]

Help author questions forecasting developments in nanotechnology

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Study 2.2

Write questions with answers that will help people forecast on other questions within this challenge. New questions cannot be officially related to questions outside the Study 2.2 challenge.

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[Biodiversity]

Identify questions related to biodiversity.

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[Mathematics]

Identify questions related to forecasting advancements or proofs in the field of mathematics.

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[Internet Usage]

Identify questions related to forecasting internet usage in 2014.

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[Supercomputing]

Identify questions related to forecasting supercomuting performance and innovation in the field.

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Study 2.1-A

Questions on price/unit and production/sales of technologies, that show projections of baseline models.

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[Nobel Laureates for 2014]

Create questions to predict the next set of Nobel Prize winners (2014) and the achievements for which they will be recognized.

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[Sustainable Energy Share Forecasts]

Identify questions related to forecasting the market share of sustainable energy sources such as Wind and Solar power in 2014.

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[General Call for Questions]

Help us generate an initial 200 questions for our beta launch in November

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