Game over. DARPA has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the DARPA Network Challenge and its $40,000 prize. The MIT team received the prize for being the first entrant to identify the locations of all ten red balloons.

The MIT team used a kind of inverse pyramid scheme to encourage people to collaborate.

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