A team of California computer programmers has conquered the Pentagon’s latest civilian research challenge.
The military’s way-out research arm, Darpa, today announced that the team of three, called “All Your Shreds Belong To Us,” had scooped up the $50,000 prize. To do it, they’d required 33 days and 600 man hours, all to re-assemble five shredded documents. A whopping 9,000 teams entered the contest, which gave groups until Dec. 5 — meaning the winners barely scraped by — to use whatever means necessary to put pulverized papers back together. via Wired
