MIT-based team wins DARPA's Red Balloon Challenge, demonstrates ...

Courtesy Engadget  Sun, 12/06/2009 - 22:06

DARPA would have you believe that it's the brilliance of modern day social networks that led an MIT-based team to win its red balloon challenge this weekend, and while there's no doubt that the presence of the internet assisted in the locating of ten randomly placed floating objects, we're crediting the bright minds at the university for their strategy of soliciting team mates.

The challenge was constructed in order to "see whether social networking sites like Facebook and...

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