Luis von Ahn
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Luis von Ahn (Spanish: [ˈlwis fon ˈan]; born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2][3][4][5][6] He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009,[7] and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo.[8]
Guatemalan entrepreneur and computer scientist
Luis von Ahn | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Von Ahn at Wikimania 2015 | |
| Born | (1978-08-19) 19 August 1978 (age 45) Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| Alma mater | Duke University (BS) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Known for | CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA Duolingo |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Human-based computation games |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | Human Computation (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum |
| Website | www |
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