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The next time you shop online, you might be helping to digitize a book (6/05/2007) Luis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, has developed a system that harnesses the power of CAPTCHA puzzles, the pictures of words that we have to decipher before registering at a website or making an online purchase. Currently, humans are wasting 150,000 hours solving 60 million+ CAPTCHA puzzles everyday. By chopping up scanned text into single words to be used as a new kind of CAPTCHA puzzle, dubbed reCAPTCHAs, von Ahn's system will allow potentially millions of people to assist in the Internet Archive's digitization efforts. (More at CMU.) |
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