Darpa Puts On Contest to Find 10 Red Balloons Across U.S.

I'm actually trying to spearhead an effort to win this and donate the money to Livestrong (http://10loons.com, http://twitter.com/10loons). My feeling is that raw data mining techniques are going to win this thing, but we'll see.

and our paths cross again :). My effort is http://10balloons.com and http://twitter.com/10balloons.

I'm curious though: as I've worked through this challenge, my focus has been drawn to post-contest plans, using this contest as a short run experiment to achieve a bigger goal. Do you have similar ideas, or are you just going to be done when the contest announces a winner?

Hey there! I've definitely been looking at this through a larger context, as there's a huge real-world application for things like this. You should send me an email: dloewenherz@gmail.com

Official DARPA Network Challenge website: http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/

Time to go buy some balloons...

Link is restricted access, you are permitted to read about the balloons here http://www.emilitary.org/article.php?aid=14878

...why not 99 red balloons instead? :)