A contest to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Internet by the government agency — the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects agency (DARPA) and the wonderful people who were there 46 years ago who had the vision to get this thing we call the Internet started for us.
See: http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.
The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States. The balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roads.
See the ARPA site for the contest rules, description.
