This contest is associated with the ICML 2013 Workshop on Representation Learning.
First prize: $350 and an invitation to speak at the workshop.
Second prize: $150
We encourage submission of papers to the
[workshop](http://deeplearning.net/icml2013-workshop-competition/)
. Scientifically interesting papers will be accepted regardless of performance in the contest.
The funding for the prizes was generously provided by Google, Inc.