ACK Technical Services

Have you looked at our contact us page? It uses a CAPTCHA, which is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. The test requires that a person filling out a form on the screen reads some obscured text in an image on the screen, and types the text correctly. They are designed to make sure that only a human, not an automated computer process intent on malicious purposes, is completing the form, based on the premise that a computer program should not be able to interpret the text displayed on the screen. You may have been asked to use CAPTCHAs before, when signing up for email accounts, social networks and some other online services.

If you are not very familiar with Nantucket, you may be wondering what the “ACK” in our company name means. If you live on or have visited the island, you may have seen these letters on license plates, bumper stickers, and elsewhere. ACK happens to be the IATA airport code for the town-owned Nantucket Memorial Airport, and the code has gone into general use to associate many types of items with the island. But what does ACK mean? To find out, see this page.