Article about Udi Manber in New York Times Science Section:
Human or Computer? Take This Test. As chief scientist of the Internet portal Yahoo, Dr. Udi Manber had a problem: how to differentiate human intelligence from that of a machine. By Sara Robinson.
The guy is brilliant. Amazon.com is lucky to have him. Yahoo! was pretty stupid to let him leave.
Yahoo’s good at doing stupid things. I should make a list. That’d be fun. But I don’t have that kind of time on my hands right now… Someday.
My favorite of those was that I got the word “wait” fuzzed. I couldn’t help but think that someone out there would, and then would get frustrated that they were sitting there for hours and the word never showed up. “It just kept saying ‘WAIT'”…