Viewpoint: Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge: A balloon's-eye perspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.

UNITED States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ; MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology

The article provides a retrospective on the 2009 DARPA Network Challenge scavenger hunt (also known as the Red Balloon Challenge) with a focus on the crowdsourced strategy of the team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The exploitation of the contest's mechanics is explored along with describing a similar contest in England.