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Soylent Grid

Caption: Structure of the SOYLENT GRID presented by UC San Diego computer scientist Serge Belongie at a computer vision conference on Oct. 15, 2007 called ICV 2007. The users benefiting from our grid can be of two kinds: researchers (needing some information analysis) and commercial clients (that simply use the Turing test generation service). These providers impose their constraints to the back end MySQL server by giving their datasets and describing the tasks to be performed by the end users. Next, when a participant requests a CAPTCHA (Turing test), the Java front end interacts with the server to get a Turing test and also tests the validity of the provided answers. Any information input by the participant (like the answer itself or the time taken to answer) is also sent back to the server for statistical purposes.

Credit: Serge Belongie

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