Luis von Ahn | |
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![]() Von Ahn at Wikimania 2015 | |
Born | Guatemala City, Guatemala | 19 August 1978
Education | Duke University (BS) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
Known for | CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA Duolingo |
Spouse | Ingrid von Ahn |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Human-based computation games |
Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
Thesis | Human Computation (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum |
Website | cs |
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.[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]
As a CEO one thing I wish I'd concentrated on earlier was my social skills