Computer science professor, Manuel Blum, had been thinking about human computation and authentication schemes for quite some time. So in 2000 when Udi Manber, then chief scientist at Yahoo!, mentioned that bots were logging on as humans, hogging Yahoo! email accounts and invading chat rooms, Manuel said “Of course, you need a computer sentry, a […]
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