A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg captcha PRONUNCIATION: (KAP-chuh) MEANING: noun: A test used to make sure that a human is using a system, not a computer program. The test typically involves reading distorted text. ETYMOLOGY: An acronym of Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The Turing test is named after Alan Turing, a mathematician and computer scientist, who proposed that a computer could be considered intelligent if, while interacting with a human and a computer, someone could not tell which is which. A captcha is a kind of reverse Turing test. Earliest documented use: 2001. USAGE: “Yet here we are, watching a carrier [Ryanair] that considered charging passengers to pee, opening a Twitter account, accepting American Express credit cards, and removing its annoying Captcha.” Pol O Conghaile; Be Travel Savvy; Irish Independent (Dublin); Oct 5, 2013. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 1949
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