Cosmic Log - DARPA offers $50,000 prize for reading shredded messages

DARPA's latest tech challenge is offering $50,000 for a task worthy of
secret agents: piecing together messages that have been shredded
into thousands of bits.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon think tank that
previously brought you
multimillion-dollar<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9621761/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/stanford-team-wins-robot-race/>
robo-car
races<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21625291/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/driverless-suv-wins-million-pentagon-race/>and
a nationwide hunt
for red balloons<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34303629/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/balloon-hunt-nets-mit-led-team/>,
put five ripped-up puzzles online today to kick off its Shredder
Challenge<http://www.shredderchallenge.com/>.
If someone wins, and I'm betting that someone will, that would be good news
and bad news for the Defense Department — and for folks like you and me.

 http://on.msnbc.com/t304z1

NB - what is interesting is that several years ago there was a company out
of Houston(?) that developed such a program for use in a case in Canada
involving shredded documents. they further developed the software to
reconstruct crosscut shredded documents. will search for that story later

Source:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/27/8511783-darpa-offers-50000-prize-for-reading-shredded-messages
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