Win $40K in the DARPA Network Challenge
Tim Finin, 7:21pm 29 October 2009DARPA will hold the DARPA Network Challenge to explore how “broad-scope problems can be solved using Internet-based technologies.
“To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems.
The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of ten moored, 8 foot, red weather balloons located at ten fixed locations in the continental United States. Balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roadways.”
According to the rules, the balloons will be on display from 10:00AM to 4:00PM on Saturday, 5 December 2009. A prize of $40,000 will be awarded to the first participant to submit the latitude and longitude of all ten weather balloons within the contest period, which ends on 14 December 2009.
Ebiquity Blog
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 am
I am planning on competing in this challenge. I am still working on the site and strategy of competing but it sounds fun. Check my site out http://theredballoons.com/ just remember its still under construction.
November 13th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Hey, my team is also working on the challenge, have a website at http://www.spotbigred.com, offering prizes, video & photo contests, and will have an iPhone app out shortly. I also picked out a local children’s camp, COMPCAMP @ Auburn University to donate extra money to.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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
December 5th, 2009 at 8:00 am
http://www.openredballoon.com – a novel way of approaching this by not amassing a large team