Coller-Dolittle Prize

Inspired by the Turing test, the Coller Dolittle challenge calls on the scientific community to develop an algorithm for communication with non-human organisms.

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The Coller Dolittle prize is a multi-year challenge with an annual prize recognizing significant scientific research that supports the aim of Interspecies Communication.

For the successful team that cracks the code of Interspecies Communication, a Major Prize of either a USD 10 million equity investment or a USD 500,000 cash prize will be awarded.

An annual prize of USD 100,000 will be awarded to a successful applicant(s). The referees reserve the option to split the prize among 2 winners.

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The first annual prize will be awarded in 2024 for recent scientific work that follows the following criteria:

·         Using a non-invasive approach to communicate with or decipher an organism’s communication.

·         Demonstration of communication in more than one context (e.g., alarm, mating, foraging) using the organism’s endogenous communication signals preferably in an interactive and autonomous way.

·         Demonstrating a measurable response of the organism to the signals broadcasted to it.

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More information about the challenge can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223008485

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The Deadline for submission is April 30, 2024 (by noon CET)

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Guidelines for submission: applications should be written in the format of a scientific publication. Applications should be up to 5 pages long (font 11, 1.5 line spacing) including all parts except for references. The data used in the study must be made available in a public repository. The submission should also include a short – up to 2-minute video that may be shared publicly in social media.