CAPTCHAs in Time Magazine
This week’s Time Magazine (the June 16, 2008 issue) has a full-page article on CAPTCHAs (”completely automated public turing test to tell computers and humans apart”). You can see the article on Time’s online edition. Congratulations to Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, and the whole team!
Interesting factoid: Luis tells me that over 750 million distinct users have solved a CAPTCHA. That’s over a tenth of the planet! Wow. No wonder Luis is trying to conquer the world. ;-)
Now, time for me to go back to playing gwap.com…
Peter Lee @ June 10, 2008
Gwap was the most interesting this in your post! lol
:D
Wow, I am suprised I just learned something. I knew what a captcha was but had no idea it stood for that!
Thanks,
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