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Reflecting on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge

Reflecting on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge contributed articles D oi:10.1145/1924421.1924441 Finding 10 balloons across the U.S. illustrates how the Internet has changed the way we solve highly distributed problems. By John C. tanG, manueL CeBRian, niCKLaus a. GiaCoBe, hyun-Woo Kim, taemie Kim, anD DouGLas œBeaKeR  WiCKeRt Reflecting on the DaRPa Red Balloon Challenge Red Balloon Challenge (also known as the DARPA Network Challenge) explored how the Internet and social networking can be used to solve a distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem. Teams had to find 10 red weather balloons deployed at undisclosed locations across the continental U.S. The first team to correctly identify the locations of all 10 would win a $40,000 prize. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won in less than nine hours (http://networkchallenge.darpa. mil/). Here, we reflect on lessons learned from the strategies used by the various teams. The Challenge commemorated the 40th anniversary of the first remote log-in to the ARPANet (October 29, 1969), an event widely heralded as the birth of the Internet. The Challenge was designed to identify Th E 2009 dARPA Communi Cations o F th e aCm | AP R I L 2 0 1 1 | vO L . 5 4 | http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Communications of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery

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Association for Computing Machinery
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contributed articles D oi:10.1145/1924421.1924441 Finding 10 balloons across the U.S. illustrates how the Internet has changed the way we solve highly distributed problems. By John C. tanG, manueL CeBRian, niCKLaus a. GiaCoBe, hyun-Woo Kim, taemie Kim, anD DouGLas œBeaKeR  WiCKeRt Reflecting on the DaRPa Red Balloon Challenge Red Balloon Challenge (also known as the DARPA Network Challenge) explored how the Internet and social networking can be used to solve a distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem. Teams had to find 10 red weather balloons deployed at undisclosed locations across the continental U.S. The first team to correctly identify the locations of all 10 would win a $40,000 prize. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won in less than nine hours (http://networkchallenge.darpa. mil/). Here, we reflect on lessons learned from the strategies used by the various teams. The Challenge commemorated the 40th anniversary of the first remote log-in to the ARPANet (October 29, 1969), an event widely heralded as the birth of the Internet. The Challenge was designed to identify Th E 2009 dARPA Communi Cations o F th e aCm | AP R I L 2 0 1 1 | vO L . 5 4 |

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Communications of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Apr 1, 2011

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