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20070613 Wednesday June 13, 2007

We all get to digitize books

Check out this story from CNN about the distorted word puzzles we all have to solve to register at Web sites.

"Instead of wasting time typing in random letters and numbers, Carnegie
Mellon researchers have come up with a way for people to type in
snippets of books to put their time to good use, confirm they're not
machines and help speed up the process of getting searchable texts
online."

The idea is that when a machine can't decipher words from a book, get all of us non-machines to do that work, bit by bit. How smart is that?

Posted by BOYER, JOSH | Jun 13 2007, 11:13:13 AM EDT | Permalink |

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