10 Sep 2011

Captcha: Luis van Ahn

From This Way Up, 12:30 pm on 10 September 2011

Luis van Ahn is one of the inventors of the 'captcha'. They're that box of squiggly letters you have to decipher and type out. Now they're being used to digitise the world's books!

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