Submission + - Team Restores 5 Shredded DARPA Docs in 33 Days
adeelarshad82 writes: A team of eight members were able piece together more than 10,000 shredded pieces of paper, split across five puzzles, as part of the U.S. Defense Department's "Shredder Challenge." The shredded pieces were made up of normal plaintext messages, encoded messages, and one picture puzzle. The team used a visual identification program that could analyze the context of an individual fragment and offer matching recommendations based on its knowledge of every other piece. As winners, they were awarded a $50,000 prize.