Archive for December, 2009

With Lure of Cash, M.I.T. Group Builds a Balloon-Finding Team to Take Pentagon Prize

A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology edged out about 4,300 other teams on Saturday in a Pentagon-sponsored contest to correctly identify the location of 10 red balloons distributed around the United States.

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Times Topics: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

The contest, which featured a $40,000 prize, was organized by the [...]