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Luis von Ahn

(1978) Computer Scientist

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Luis von Ahn is a computer scientist, best known for Human Computation.

Quick Facts About Luis von Ahn

Born: August 19, 1978
Profession: Computer Scientist
Notable works: Human Computation

About Luis von Ahn

Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and software developer. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. For these projects and others, von Ahn is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at…

Andrew

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The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem…

Business

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Together with my advisor, Manuel Blum, I co-invented CAPTCHAs, or computer-generated tests that humans are routinely able to pass but that computers…

Able

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Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon…

Because

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I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Am

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One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are…

Facts

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Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Areas

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When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week.…

About

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