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So reCaptcha's basis is a new field known as Human Computation that Luis invented himself. The term was coined in his Ph.D thesis. Google, however, has been the

So reCaptcha's basis is a new field known as Human Computation that Luis invented himself. The term was coined in his Ph.D thesis. Google, however, has been the only company to really embrace Human Computation so it's not really a huge surprise that reCaptcha was sold to Google.

div 17y ago
That or the fact that hooking up reCaptcha to Google's project Gutenberg would seem to solve some of the problems inherent to it.
- SwellJoe 17y ago
  When did Project Gutenberg become "Google's"?
  - mmt 17y ago
    Perhaps he meant Google's book scanning effort, similar to Proj. Gutenberg?
    - div 17y ago
      Yes, that's what I meant. What a great way to embarrass myself mixing that up.