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MIT team finda DARPA balloons in less than nine hours, wins prize
A contest hatched by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), offered $40,000 to the first group to find ten red weather balloons at secret locations across the US.
More than 4000 groups participated in the project, designed to commemorate the Internet’s 40th birthday by illustrating the power of social networking and crowdsourcing to solve time [...]
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