Geek captcha

[Steven Schear]

I guess I was lucky I got credited, by mentioning online, early concepts
for the Warrant Canary and (what became known as) The Street Performer
Protocol before others.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 1:36 PM Stephen D. Williams <sdw at lig.net> wrote:

> Cool!  That's a good idea.  I may implement it and similar things soon.
> Just for posterity, I independently invented CAPTCHA, I think a year before
> the CMU kids thought of it.  I even began filing a patent while at my
> startup in the late 1990's, but we ran out of money.  I should have
> continued, although the situation was murky.  Imagine my surprise a couple
> years later at the IJCAI AI conferences in Acapulco when the CMU team
> presented CAPTCHA at an extra presentation at the end of the conference.  I
> went on a lark because the point of the presentation wasn't clear until I
> was sitting in it.  Just one of the many things I've thought of / invented
> that I didn't capitalize on, or give away in a timely fashion.  Par for the
> course; many people will have similar ideas at similar points in time.
>
> sdw
>
> On 7/14/18 4:50 PM, Steven Schear wrote:
>
>
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