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13 Jun 2009

The idea behind reCAPTCHA

An entertaining talk from Luis von Ahn, the guy behind CAPTCHAs, about the reinvention of the idea in a way to benefit mankind. Some pretty incredible statistics throughout, especially towards the end.

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at 7:50 pm and is filed under Computer Science, Computers, Funny, Internet, Words. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “The idea behind reCAPTCHA”

  1. avatar konrad says:
    June 16, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    crazy guy, but absolutely ingenious.

    thanks for this stuff and this lovely website!

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