CAPTCHA - A Revolution
CAPTCHA = Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart What is a CAPTCHA? A System built by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford of CMU to make sure that user who is active at the other end is a Human and not a bot. This was initially done to prevent bots entering yahoo chat rooms and redirecting the users to someother sites. CAPTCHA - Reverse Turing Test : Yups, CAPTCHA is a reverse turing test because it reverses the role of computers and human. Computer is a device designed to perform what human want it to. But in the case of CAPTCHA it is reversed. It is completely automated, so computer challenges you to perform some action to identify that you are a human. Initially [even now] CAPTCHA was an distorted image with some characters in it which would make lives of bots harder to detect them but which wouldn't affect human though Next generation of CAPTCHA carried a audio link with the distorted image beside to ...