At its “Minds and Machines” conference in San Francisco, GE announced today its “Industrial Internet Quests” challenge to developers and data scientists to create new algorithms and design applications to reduce air travel delays and improve the patient experience. Winners of the challenge will receive a $600,000 stake for mining data and developing solutions for productivity.

Talking to a couple of Australian guys on a cell phone with a weak signal and a clacking keyboard in the background doesn’t make for the most audible conversation. But, based on what I’m pretty sure I heard correctly, their just-funded data modeling company, Kaggle, is doing some pretty interesting stuff. At least that’s what [...]