Researchers Turn Web Blather to Books

May 24, 2007 By JENNIFER C. YATES, Associated Press Writer
Researchers Turn Web Blather to Books (AP)
Luis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, poses on campus in Pittsburgh Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, including Von Ahn, have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

(AP) -- A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books.



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