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  2. Luis von Ahn - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, von Ahn invented reCAPTCHA, [24] a new form of CAPTCHA that also helps digitize books. In reCAPTCHA, the images of words displayed to the user come directly from old books that are being digitized; they are words that optical character recognition could not identify and are sent to people throughout the web to be identified.

  3. CAPTCHA - Wikipedia

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    This CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA v1) of "smwm" obscures its message from computer interpretation by twisting the letters and adding a slight background color gradient.A CAPTCHA (/ ˈ k æ p. tʃ ə / KAP-chə) is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam.

  4. reCAPTCHA - Wikipedia

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    reCAPTCHA Inc. [1] is a CAPTCHA system owned by Google.It enables web hosts to distinguish between human and automated access to websites. The original version asked users to decipher hard-to-read text or match images.

  5. Sanctum Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Sanctum was founded in 1997 as Perfecto Technologies, by Eran Reshef and Gili Raanan.. The company released its first product AppShield in summer of 1999. [3]The company has done an extensive research in application security and applying formal methods to real life software [4] in collaboration with Turing Award winner Professor Amir Penueli.

  6. Max Levchin - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts [1] and was the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test. He founded or co-founded the companies Slide.com, HVF, and Affirm.

  7. Eduardo Saverin - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, he owned about 2% of Facebook shares, [6] valued at approximately $2 billion at the time. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Based in Singapore , [ 9 ] he is the co-founder and co-CEO of the venture capital firm B Capital , and has also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki [ 10 ] and Jumio . [ 11 ]

  8. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    For example, a Facebook user can link their email account to their Facebook to find friends on the site, allowing the company to collect the email addresses of users and non-users alike. [216] Over time, countless data points about an individual are collected; any single data point perhaps cannot identify an individual, but together allows the ...

  9. Mark Zuckerberg - Wikipedia

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    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.