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    <Title>UMBC team 2nd in  DARPA Shredder Challenge</Title>
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          <div class="html-content"><div><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Febiquity.umbc.edu%2Fblogger%2F2011%2F12%2F03%2Fumbc-team-2nd-in-darpa-shredder-challenge%2F&amp;text=UMBC%20team%202nd%20in%20%20DARPA%20Shredder%20Challenge&amp;related=ebiquity&amp;lang=en&amp;count=vertical&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Febiquity.umbc.edu%2Fblogger%2F2011%2F12%2F03%2Fumbc-team-2nd-in-darpa-shredder-challenge%2F" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Tweet</a></div><p>A part-time, two person effort UMBC VP for Research Don Engel and his wife Marianne nearly won the <a href="http://www.shredderchallenge.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DARPA Shredder Challenge</a>. Their entry, <a href="http://www.csee.umbc.edu/2011/12/umbc-team-places-second-in-the-darpa-shredder-challenge/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Schroddon</a> got a late start, but held the top leaderboard spot for quite a while before being bested by “All Your Shreds Are Belong To U.S.” at the end. The first prize was $50,000 and second was … well, priceless.</p></div>
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    <Summary>Tweet  A part-time, two person effort UMBC VP for Research Don Engel and his wife Marianne nearly won the DARPA Shredder Challenge. Their entry, Schroddon got a late start, but held the top...</Summary>
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