-- Kind Regards, Sam Sam Lanning President - Oxford University Computer Society president@ox.compsoc.net mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /Oxford Entrepreneurs has just launched a new competition in association with the Skolkovo Foundation. The Oxford Entrepreneurs' Skolkovo Business Plan competition aims to support entrepreneurship within science and technology at Oxford University, and provides a no-strings-attached £15,000 prize./ /Projects eligible for the Skolkovo prize cover one of the following areas: IT, Bio-Tech, Medicine Technology, Energy Efficiency, Nuclear Energy or Space Technologies. In addition to the no-strings-attached £15,000 prize paid to the team of winners, the prize also includes up to three return airfares to Moscow for team members to meet representatives of the Skolkovo Foundation, investors and corporate partners!/ /Entries must be submitted in the form of a 1-2 page executive summary, and must fall into one of the science or technology based areas stated above. To view more information and to apply, visit www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/skolkovo http://sm.caniluk.com/l/49kr/i/ /The* entry deadline of April 20th* is fast approaching, so submit your idea now! All ideas are submitted securely, and are judged by a panel of judges which includes selected members from the Oxford Entrepreneurs' committee and the Skolkovo Foundation./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quantopian http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/quantopian-brings-algorithmic-trading-to-masses/ & Upgrade Capital http://www.upgradecapital.com/ are about to launch the first cross university trading competition of its kind. All you need to participate is familiarity with programming and basic statistics -- we provide access to massive amounts of data and a sophisticated development UI. If you are completely new to trading, you can dive right into the source code for any of a number of open-source algos on Quantopian's platform: * Basic order placement https://www.quantopian.com/posts/simply-buy * Technical analysis https://www.quantopian.com/posts/this-weeks-concept-trading-on-max-and-min * Machine learning example https://www.quantopian.com/posts/first-attempt-at-machine-learning-perceptron-algorithm-using-past-30-days-of-trading-data * Algorithm referencing the Quandl data universe https://www.quantopian.com/posts/brent-slash-wti-spread-fetcher-example Quantopian's browser-based UI allows you to clone these algos, modify them, and immediately run back-tests using Zipline https://github.com/quantopian/zipline. If you have already developed trading algorithms, you can plug them into Upgrade Capital's API without porting over any of your source code. *If you want your work to be evaluated by a panel of industry experts, sign up https://upgradecapital.com/signup.html for the competition by 11:59pm PST on Sunday, April 14th*. More information can be found here http://upgradecapital.com/getinvolved/algorithmic.html. If you have any questions, please contact us mailto:contact@upgradecapital.com.