City-based college students win Microsoft's challenge

A team of researchers from the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in the capital have won the Microsoft Research India's nationwide Whodunit? Challenge.

Kuldeep Yadav and his team members from the institute decoded the challenge, inspired by DARPA Network Challenge in the US, in five hours and seven minutes against the maximum challenge time of 15 days.

DARPA, Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, is the US military's research arm and has been hosting a series of such contests in America since 2004. The team will receive a price of Rs one lakh.