Google Employee, ReCAPTCHA Co-Founder Joins Facebook

Ben Maurer, a Google employee and co-founder of reCAPTCHA, announced on his blog Monday that he’s joining Facebook to work with the infrastructure team. “With all the growth Facebook has seen comes unique challenges in scaling systems. I’m looking forward to working on this,” he wrote.

ReCAPTCHA, to review, was acquired by Google last year and is a service that helps to secure websites while digitizing books. Maurer was the chief architect of the company.

It not only provides CAPTCHA services — the distorted text you’re asked to enter in order to access some sites — but it does so in a unique way.

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