{"id":189,"date":"2008-05-28T20:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T03:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-05-31T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T19:51:47","slug":"recaptcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/recaptcha\/","title":{"rendered":"reCAPTCHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"190\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/recaptcha\/recaptcha-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/recaptcha-logo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"160,95\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"recaptcha-logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/recaptcha-logo.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/recaptcha-logo.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft alignnone size-medium wp-image-190\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"recaptcha-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/recaptcha-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"95\" \/>Today at work I attended a presentation by the inventor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\">CAPTCHA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luis_von_Ahn\">Luis von Ahn<\/a>, entitled Human Computation.  An older version of this presentation he gave at Google is <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143\">here<\/a>.  It was a very interesting (not to mention entertaining) presentation about how humans can be used to do things computers can&#8217;t.  The coolest part is that he has created a way to turn games into a useful part of a computer program to identify words and images.  At the presentation, he showed us a web service called <a href=\"http:\/\/recaptcha.net\/\">reCAPTCHA<\/a>.  Basically, what it does is translate words from text scans of documents to digitize books.  It turns the process of validating &#8220;human&#8221; users into contributing to a large project to make the world a better place.  Cool.<\/p>\n<p>So, I went to their website and found a WordPress plugin!  I&#8217;ve installed the plugin, so donate some of your brainpower to a good cause by leaving a comment.  This new feature now means you can leave comments without having to wait for them to be moderated.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Angie is doing well.  The recovery is slow, but she is making progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at work I attended a presentation by the inventor of CAPTCHA, Luis von Ahn, entitled Human Computation. An older version of this presentation he gave at Google is here. It was a very interesting (not to mention entertaining) presentation about how humans can be used to do things computers can&#8217;t. The coolest part is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13],"tags":[28,27],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-33","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}