MIT wins $40,000 prize in nationwide balloon-hunt contest

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>And no, balloon boy was not involved.</p>

<p>story below:
team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won $40,000 in a high-tech scavenger hunt on Saturday by discovering the location of 10 red weather balloons.</p>

<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that the MIT team was the first group in the contest to report the latitude and longitude coordinates of all 10 balloons, which were scattered across the United States.</p>

<p>DARPA is the U.S. military's research arm. Saturday's challenge is the latest in a series that the agency has hosted since 2004.</p>

<p>This contest was designed to test the way social networking and lesser-known Web-based techniques can help accomplish a large-scale, time-critical task.
rest of story in link:
MIT</a> wins $40,000 prize in nationwide balloon-hunt contest - CNN.com</p>

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<p>I saw that! MIT is so awesome. Great networking skills at work there!</p>

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<p>Haha I heard about this on Youtube because there was a team of people trying to raise the 40,000 for charity. But little did I know that MIT brains were at work here. Great stuff!</p>

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<p>Cobgratulations to all the MITers who participates–
and the friend… of friend… of friends…
check out a short item re the challenge
at the site at MIT team wins Darpa's treasure hunt in less than one day | Internet | The Guardian</p>

<p>So happy for them and for all learned with this cool experiment ;o)</p>