CBSDetroit.com: Rock Ventures Shows Off Madison Building Restoration - January 30, 2012
Anyone who doesn’t want to work in downtown Detroit really ought to take a look at 1555 Broadway St.MetroModeMedia.com: Metro Detroit start-ups dominate Accelerate Michigan - December 01, 2011
Metro Detroit firms swept into the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition and ran away with most of the $1 million in awards last month.Bizreport.com: Game-based CAPTCHA alternative offers increased security, fun for users - January 24, 2011
CAPTCHAs have long been used as a means of defense against hackers and bots but the increasing trend of outsourcing the hacking of CAPTCHAs to cheap labor forces could prompt the search for a different method. How about the gamification of the verification process?Businessweek: New Ways to Captcha Bots - December 15, 2011
It’s not your vision going bad: Those blurry words that some websites force you to retype when you log in are getting blurrier. They’re known as captchas, and they’re designed to stop malicious software from accessing a site and, say, using speedy algorithms to snatch up all the tickets to a concert in seconds. Computers have a hard time deciphering the wavy characters, but they are getting better, says Luis von Ahn, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who invented captchas in 2000.Huffington Post: Best Detroit Tech Startups Of 2011 - December 19, 2011
At times it seems there's enough startup buzz in this town to power 12 of Dan Gilbert's M@dison buildings, but how does one sift through the business plans of IT wannabes to find the one that could be the next Apple?Ross School of Business Blog: It Takes A Village
Tyler Paxton, MBA ’11, entered the Michigan Ross MBA Program with an idea. Two years later, that idea has become Are You a Human LLC. “One of the things that attracted me to the University of Michigan was the availability of funding and resources for entrepreneurs,” he says. “What I gained on campus was invaluable.”Xconomy.com: U-M Competition Helps Earliest Stage Startups Refine Business Models - December 2, 2011
The Michigan Business Challenge, a four-month business plan competition sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Zell Lurie Institute, kicks off today in Ann Arbor. Student teams will compete for $60,000, gaining valuable feedback and broadening networks along the way. And the public is invited to watch at every step.ModelDMedia.com: Detroit firms score top-shelf prizes at Accelerate Michigan - November 29, 2011
Detroit-based firms and start-ups with strong ties to the Motor City did quite well at this year's Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, taking top spots in a couple of categories and second place in the overall competition.Detroit Free Press: Venture capital drop slows Michigan's recovery
In a sign of the ongoing challenges the state faces in trying to diversify its economy, the amount of venture capital dollars being invested in Michigan companies is down sharply through the end of September and is likely to show a decline for all of...Innovate! University of Michigan: Are You a Human
Real live person or spambot? Are You a Human can tell: Everybody knows them—those irritating computer programs known as CAPTCHA that make users decipher squiggly confusing letters in order to get to the web content they want.AnnArbor.com: Are You a Human wins Accelerate Michigan student competition - November 17, 2011
Ann Arbor area life sciences firm DeNovo Sciences took home the top prize of $500,000, and manufacturing technology company Fusion Coolant Systems Inc. won $150,000 at the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition here Thursday.The Fiscal Times: 9 Wacky Student Business Plans That Could Succeed - October 24, 2011
The Fiscal Times profiles nine student business plans that could succeed, including Are You a Human.Model D: U-M student-led tech start-up Are You a Human moves downtown – August 16, 2011
Model D, the site for all things Detroit, features Are You a Human – talking company growth and plans to move to into Detroit’s historical Madison Building.
eCurrent.com: Are you a human? – July 25, 2011
Current tells the story of Are You a Human, its lead investor, Detroit Venture Partners, and both companies’ commitment to the City of Detroit.
Crain’s Detroit Business: Tech startup Are You a Human gets funding, plans move to Detroit – July 25, 2011
Detroit business journal discusses Are You a Human’s investor involvement and the company’s plans for the future.
AnnArbor.com: Ann Arbor startup close to landing investment for CAPTCHA alternative – May 26, 2011
AnnArbor.com talks with Are You a Human developers about how they got their start and their goal of ridding the world of frustrating CAPTCHAs.
CNN Money: Texas smackdown: The winners - May 24, 2011
Are You a Human takes second place in the 2011 Rice University Business Plan Super Bowl for its alternative to the existing Internet tool for human authentication.
