DARPA Network Challenge Winner MIT's team claimed victory just nine hours
after the first balloons went up DARPA
after the first balloons went up DARPA
From Popular Science:
The Pentagon's DARPA agency wanted to know how to filter trustworthy information from social networks; MIT had the answer.
Groups of friends and strangers spent more than a month preparing for perhaps the greatest social networking competition in history. All wanted to be the first to find 10 red weather balloons scattered across the continental U.S. on December 5, and claim a $40,000 prize from the Pentagon's DARPA agency.
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My Comment: That was fast .... it also tells everyone that the power of social networks should not be ignored.
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