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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.
Mar 3, 2022 · By the time Duolingo founder Luis von Ahn turned 24, he was already a millionaire several times over. Now 43, he may not be a household name — but you’re probably one of the hundreds of millions...
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.
View Luis von Ahn’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. I plan to dedicate my life to building a future in which, through technology, every…
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Jan 27, 2020 · Luis von Ahn is the founder and boss of Duolingo, the world's most popular language learning app.
Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and former professor at Carnegie Mellon University known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur Fellow and selling two companies to Google in his twenties.
Luis von Ahn, Ph.D. has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board since founding Duolingo with Severin Hacker in August 2011. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of reCAPTCHA from 2007 until its acquisition by Google in 2009.
