DARPA Network Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today announced the DARPA Network Challenge to mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet. The competition requires participants to discover the exact position of 10 large, red weather balloons that DARPA will place in undisclosed locations across the continental United States. The first person to identify the location of all the balloons will win a $40,000 cash prize. The balloons will be positioned on December 5, 2009.
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My team is trying to win and have setup a challenge website at http://www.spotbigred.com, we are trying to get the community involved by having photo & video contests and offering prizes and the iPhone app will be in the App Store shortly.
There are a variety of different ways to try to win this competition but I’m sure most of them leverage, in one way or another, having as many people as possible know about the competition. Everyone should help spread the word!
We’re trying to do that on Facebook and on our website:
http://www.redballoonrace.com
Check us out and shoot me an email! Tell me what you think!
-Tom
My Team, DeciNena, will win because we have the coolest name, we are offering to share some prize money with all the active participants, not just the balloon finders, and we are 100% CUPCAKE FREE.
Seriously, the winning team will employ a mixture of all of these strategies. I wonder if DARPA may even run the contest a second time next year, to see what has been learned and how things develop. There is a practical application for this grand experiment.
Join us: http://decinena.com/
We’ve got a strong team that’s going to give all the money to charity (Red Cross). If you’d like to help, report your balloon sightings to
http://www.ispyaredballoon.com/
or at facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201028633372
A potentially neat way for solving this challenge can be seen here: http://www.openredballoon.com