Technology Term:
Completely Automated Public Turing test
Standard Definition Exists?
A computer program or system intended to distinguish human from machine input, typically as a way of thwarting spam and automated extraction of data from websites.
Accepted Acronym:
CAPTCHA
Year first used/coined:
2003
Attributed to:
Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford