Win the DARPA Challenge

Director Regina E. Dugan announces the DARPA Network Challenge to mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet. The competition requires participants to discover the exact position of 10 large red weather balloons that DARPA will place in undisclosed locations across the continental United States on December 5, 2009. The first person to identify the location of all the balloons will win a $40,000 cash prize.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director Regina Dugan is speaking at UCLA's 40th Anniversary of the Internet celebration, hosted by Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, October 29, 2009.

"The DARPA Network Challenge explores the unprecedented ability of the Internet to bring people together to solve tough problems."

Forty years ago, the first Internet message was sent from the UCLA School of Engineering to the Stanford Research Institute.

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[kbutterfly3]

GO NERDFIGHTARIA!

[cecisota12]

NERDFIGHTERS FTW!!!!!! :D

[yappertrap]

yes they will reverse engineer it and will pin point YOU. lets have a contest who can hack into darpa and release all the top secret files.. the prize...priceless. the technology is to enslave us. don't sell out for 40 grand.

[octollama]

i have faith in you, nerdfighters!

[makenziecat]

oh man my cousin lives in Texas and he said he just saw a red balloon by his office, i bet this is what he meant

[azndude3600]

NERDFIGHTERS!!!!!

They're doing it for charity!

[CuteHoot5706]

yep, im sorry, every one else should just give up. nerdfighters are going to find them all. I am 100% sure. :)

[PredatorH3]

NERDFIGHTERS GONNA WIN!

[cooldude101699]

nerdfighters got this down

[lookoutforKURT]

shes announcing the contest not asking for help noob but pogo/nerdfighters are gunna win and im lookoing all over massachusetts

[MAGGERMUFIN]

Nerdfighters/Pogo Tribe YA...GO SEARCH TEAM!!!

[godlfire]

go pogo-tribe!