Most visitors would probably need a little more time to enter the answer to this CAPTCHA Test….

• http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/ Andrew Hodges, biographer of Alan Turing
• http://www.cs.usfca.edu/www.AlanTuring.net/turing_archive/index.html Archive of Alan Turing’s documents
• ‘Computing machinery and intelligence’, article by Alan Turing
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for Alan Turing

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If you wound up at this site chance are that you know what Captcha is…but on the off chance that you don’t, I’ll explain… have you ever had to enter a some jumbled letters at the bottom of a mail form before you could even click ‘Send’? Well that is Captcha.  The purpose is to determine whether or not you are a human, as opposed to a spam bot.  Sounds like science fiction, but it’s just a clever method to prevent spam from being sent through online mail forms.  Thank heavens for Captcha and good riddens to mail form injection spam!

CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. As defined on the CAPTCHA home page at the Carnegie Melon University School of Computer Science’s Web site:

CAPTCHA is a program that can generate and grade tests that:

• Most humans can pass
• Current computer programs can’t pass