December 6, 2009
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Key elements of what recent contest?
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Welp, turns out this question is unintentionally a guest question. Shrik thought some other question was this, and answered this to some other question. Although that wasn’t where we got the question from, he does get first credit. So Shrik get’s a GQHero badge 
!, that we’ll be pushing into the system shortly :-)
Answer:
The US DARPA’s “Network challenge”. DARPA released 10 red balloons at secret locations all over the USA. They asked teams to find out all ten locations (marked on the map) and send it to them, using whatever means they could. The team to do it the fastest was a team from MIT.
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December 7th, 2009 at 8:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260216039 )
DARPA wanted to figure out how fast and accurate internet info could be, so they released red balloons from secretly pre-decided locations and asked people to tweet locations where they were seen, then used the response times to get their results.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:07 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260216438 )
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contest marking 40th bday of internet. Won by MIT Junta for identifying red weather balloon locations.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260217570 )
DARPA’s balloon-spotting contest. Won by MIT
December 7th, 2009 at 8:48 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260218936 )
DARPA’s balloon spotting contest.
(Won by a team from MIT)
December 7th, 2009 at 8:55 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260219300 )
DARPA’s Network Challenge
December 7th, 2009 at 9:03 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260219812 )
DARPA’s balloon challenge
December 7th, 2009 at 9:34 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260221656 )
A contest hatched by DARPA , offered $40,000 to the first group to find ten red weather balloons at secret locations across the US.
http://www.inquisitr.com/50953.....-balloons/
December 7th, 2009 at 9:50 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260222616 )
The DARPA Network Challenge to find 10 balloons strewn about the USA, which MIT won in just under 9 hours.
Also dupe :)
December 7th, 2009 at 10:09 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260223781 )
http://www.boiledbeans.net/200.....ginal-jam/ – “shrik has a nice funda. Check it out.”
December 7th, 2009 at 10:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260223889 )
DARPA’s Red Balloon Challenge
December 7th, 2009 at 10:12 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260223943 )
DARPA Network Challenge
this one may be a dupe too :D. Atleast the way shrik answered it last time
https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx
and the dupe is Tycho de Brahe & Johannes Kepler at Pohorelec (Prague)
December 7th, 2009 at 10:33 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260225186 )
DARPA network challenge
December 8th, 2009 at 12:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260231309 )
DARPA network challenge.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260237208 )
FULL RECENT!
DARPA Network Challenge
December 8th, 2009 at 4:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260248039 )
Darpa’s balloon spotting contest/ netowrking challenge.
December 8th, 2009 at 5:44 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260251098 )
darpa
December 8th, 2009 at 6:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260252685 )
Darpa’s experiment to see how people solve the problem of locating 10 balloons by leveraging the power of social networks.
December 8th, 2009 at 6:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260254047 )
DARPA’s ‘Network Challenge’. won by students from MIT.
10 balloons located in some cities.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260259375 )
DARPA Network Challenge 2009
December 8th, 2009 at 8:07 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260259631 )
DARPA’s contest to test the accuracy of information on the internet. Won by MIT.
December 8th, 2009 at 9:18 am, GMT +0000 ( 1260263928 )
http://science.slashdot.org/ar.....04/2047229
December 8th, 2009 at 6:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260296777 )
DARPA balloon challenge
December 8th, 2009 at 9:50 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260309058 )
DARPA’s ‘Network Challenge’, also known as ‘Spot-the-Balloon’
December 9th, 2009 at 11:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260399606 )
Ah.
Bah.
Least I got the answer this time around :D
December 9th, 2009 at 11:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1260399655 )
Wait, shouldn’t I also get a GQhero trophy?