Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On December 5, 2009, in less than seven hours, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Red Balloon Challenge Team found ...

The Red Balloon Challenge has gone viral! Tonight's party features interactive activities where selected participants can participate in a fun interactive Red Balloon Game. Pop the balloon....or find ...

Almost as soon as it was launched, in only nine hours in fact, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the ...

Update at 10:56 p.m. PST: The MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team (PDF) has won the competition. You may have heard about that DARPA balloon challenge, where the first team to identify the latitudes and ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) declared the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the winner in a challenge that began -- and ended -- on Saturday Dec. 5. The DARPA ...

Government agency, in contest designed to gauge participants' social-networking savvy, plans to award $40,000 to the first person who pinpoints red weather balloons placed across States. Lance Whitney ...

Ten balloons like this one will be put up to kick off the DARPA Network Challenge on Saturday. More than 300 teams have signed up for this weekend's DARPA Network Challenge, a $40,000 balloon hunt ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will this week debrief teams that competed in its Network Challenge to discuss how they used social networking tools to find red balloons deployed ...