Dec062009
MIT team wins DARPA “red balloon” challenge - in 9 hours
Filed under Internet / online by david brooks at 3:27 pm
It’s official: Thanks to the Internet and social networking, nothing whatsoever can be kept secret.
An MIT team won the DARPA challenge I mentioned earlier this week - teams had to locate 10 red weather balloons placed randomly around the country - in just nine hours.They win $40,000 for charity. (The contest was designed to see how online groups would go about gathering scattered information; the balloons were tethered in easily seen locations near roads, but could be anywhere in the contiguous 48 states.)
As this map shows, none of the balloons were closer to us that Delaware. Bummer! Also note that, except for one balloon in Memphis, Tenn., all were in coastal states. The fly-over country is ignored by experts again.
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