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Luis von Ahn (Spanish: [ˈlwis fon ˈan]; born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur, software developer, and consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing.
Luis von Ahn. I build systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone. I call this Human Computation, but others sometimes call it Crowdsourcing.
Mar 3, 2022 · Learn how von Ahn created Duolingo, a popular language-learning app with 150 million daily users, and sold two companies to Google. He also developed CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, technologies that prevent spam and help computers recognize images.
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Nov 16, 2022 · Luis von Ahn is the 44-year-old visionary behind Duolingo, the free language learning app that has become a household name — even boasting a viral TikTok account featuring company mascot Duo the owl. Before he built his $3 billion company, von Ahn’s story began in Guatemala, where he lived with his mother and grandmother.
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Learn about Luis von Ahn, the entrepreneur and educator who co-invented CAPTCHAs and founded Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning app. Watch his TED talks on crowdsourcing, AI and educational equity.
Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan-American inventor and entrepreneur who co-created CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA and Duolingo. He received the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2018 for his global impact in computer technology and education.
Jan 27, 2020 · Luis von Ahn. Luis first got interested in computers at the age of eight. Luis then became a multimillionaire by his early 30s, after selling not one but two businesses to Google. The...
