Professor Luis Von Ahn at Carnegie Mellon still gets my vote for outstanding service to the field…

Paul Marty first mentioned reCaptcha here (on Museumatic) in May of 2007: http://musematic.net/?p=188 , although I admit I missed it at the time.

 A colleague here at the CMA, Doug Hiwiller, brought the issue to my attention this week forwarding me an email with a link to the Christian Science Monitor  (which admittedly has a few more readers than Musematic) article entitled ”How to Turn Blather into books“: http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/02/19/recaptcha-how-to-turn-blather-into-books/

Once you’ve read the csmonitor article head on over to the reCaptcha site: http://recaptcha.net/

Wow…just wow.