Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team)
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Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team)
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#3Completed less than 9 hours after balloon launch. Wow.
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#4Wow, that was fast. Anyone have any info on how they did it?
EDIT: From http://balloon.mit.edu, it looks like they just created a system to assign personalized tracking links to which you could submit pics and coordinates of balloons, as well as invite other people to get a personalized tracking link of their own. If you found a balloon, you got $2000, plus your inviter got $1000, plus their inviter got $500, etc, etc. Simple but obviously effective.
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#5It will be interesting to see what their approach was. $1,000 finders fee for each balloon? $4,000?
Greed is the only solution I can come up with.
Re: Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team)
#6Wow, that was fast. Anyone have any info on how they did it? EDIT: From http://balloon.mit.edu , it looks like they just created a system to assign personalized tracking links to which you could submit pics and coordinates of balloons, as well as invite other people to get a personalized tracking link of their own. If you found a balloon, you got $2000, plus your inviter got $1000, plus their inviter got $500, etc, e…
The next question is.. how many people were in their pyramid scheme^H^H^H^H^H team?
Re: Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team)
#7Wow, that was fast. Anyone have any info on how they did it? EDIT: From http://balloon.mit.edu , it looks like they just created a system to assign personalized tracking links to which you could submit pics and coordinates of balloons, as well as invite other people to get a personalized tracking link of their own. If you found a balloon, you got $2000, plus your inviter got $1000, plus their inviter got $500, etc, e…
It sounds almost like a MLM (Multi-level Marketing) scheme.
Re: Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team)
#8Wow, that was fast. Anyone have any info on how they did it? EDIT: From http://balloon.mit.edu , it looks like they just created a system to assign personalized tracking links to which you could submit pics and coordinates of balloons, as well as invite other people to get a personalized tracking link of their own. If you found a balloon, you got $2000, plus your inviter got $1000, plus their inviter got $500, etc, e…
It sounds almost like a MLM (Multi-level Marketing) scheme.
Except with a convergent sum of money...
Re: Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team)
#9It will be interesting to see what their approach was. $1,000 finders fee for each balloon? $4,000? Greed is the only solution I can come up with.
Yeah, and your interest will be satisfied if you actually visit their website and scroll down.
Re: Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team)
#10What do you suppose the practical military applications for this is? (and maybe a corollary is if this solution was worth 40K + whatever overhead was required)
This is what the challenge says: "The Challenge explores basic research issues such as mobilization, collaboration, and trust in diverse social networking constructs and could serve to fuel innovation across a wide spectrum of applications."
That's pretty general, and we now know the solution - so does this have any commercial applications?