Duke University (BS) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Known for
CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA Duolingo
Spouse
Ingrid von Ahn
Awards
MacArthur Fellowship (2006)
Innovators Under 35 (2007)[1]
Lemelson–MIT Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fields
Human-based computation games
Institutions
Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis
Human Computation(2005)
Doctoral advisor
Manuel Blum
Website
cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/
Luis von Ahn (Spanish:[ˈlwisfonˈan]; 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]
^"Innovators Under 35: 2007". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 4 January 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
^cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/
^Luis von Ahn at TED
^Luis von Ahn at DBLP Bibliography Server
^Luis von Ahn on Twitter
^"Luis von Ahn". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
^"Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA". Google Official Blog. 16 September 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
^Shaw, Dougal (2021). "Duolingo boss: 'Develop your social skills'". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC. As a CEO one thing I wish I'd concentrated on earlier was my social skills
LuisvonAhn (Spanish: [ˈlwis fon ˈan]; born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur, software developer, and consulting professor in the Computer...
Carnegie Mellon University professor LuisvonAhn and his Swiss-born post-graduate student Severin Hacker. VonAhn had sold his second company, reCAPTCHA...
order to deter bot attacks and spam. The term was coined in 2003 by LuisvonAhn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford. It is a contrived...
study at Carnegie Mellon University where he co-founded Duolingo with LuisvonAhn in 2009. He received his BS in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2006...
reading of an uncertain word. reCAPTCHA was originally developed by LuisvonAhn, David Abraham, Manuel Blum, Michael Crawford, Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen...
recognition) by packaging the task as a game. It was originally conceived by LuisvonAhn of Carnegie Mellon University and first posted online in 2003. Google...
Rudich, Michael Sipser, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Umesh Vazirani, Vijay Vazirani, LuisvonAhn, and Ryan Williams. List of Venezuelans Graph isomorphism problem Non-interactive...
on March 27, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2022. Liao, Manqian; Attali, Yigal; von Davier, Alina A.; Lockwood, J. R. (July 13, 2022). Wiberg, Marie; Molenaar...
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was the earliest born inventor inducted into the NIHF (1743), while LuisvonAhn is currently the most recently born (1978). "Search for Famous Inventors"...
Paxson 2008 Dawson Engler 2009 Tim Roughgarden 2010 Craig Gentry 2011 LuisvonAhn 2012 Martin Casado and Dina Katabi 2013 Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb 2014...
such descriptions as a side effect of having fun. Phetch was created by LuisvonAhn and Shiry Ginosar of Carnegie Mellon University following the pattern...
specific research task. The term "games with a purpose" was coined by LuisvonAhn, inventor of CAPTCHA, co-organizer of the reCAPTCHA project, and inventor...
November 2013. VonAhn recibe Orden del Quetzal en grado de Gran Comendador "Condecoran con la Orden del Quetzal al cineasta guatemalteco Luis Argueta – Prensa...
Rooms Bhavish Aggarwal Ola Cabs Christopher Ahlberg Recorded Future LuisvonAhn Duolingo, reCAPTCHA Jeremy Allaire Allaire Corporation, Circle Joseph...
Metaheuristics (AIECM): 3–17. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 May 2013. LuisvonAhn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper, and John Langford. CAPTCHA: Using Hard...
then, SEO contests have become a part of some academic classes. In 2008 LuisvonAhn at Carnegie Mellon University created a contest for his students. In...
members contribute building data throughout the world. The ESP Game by LuisvonAhn (later acquired by Google and renamed Google Image Labeler) started in...
Jaime Viñals, mountaineer; he scaled seven highest peaks in the world LuisvonAhn, computer scientist, founder of Duolingo, CAPTCHA's creator and Researcher...
2012 Frank L. Stulen (1943), numerical control of machine tools, 1985 LuisvonAhn (Ph.D. 2005), Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science, 2006 Stefan...
has been named a Searle Scholar and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. LuisvonAhn is one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing and the founder of the companies...
Florida Cuba Nsé Ufot Chief Executive Officer, New Georgia Project Nigeria LuisvonAhn Cofounder and CEO, Duolingo Guatemala Ali Zaidi Deputy White House National...
original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016. Malone, Thomas W.; LuisvonAhn (2012). "Collective Intelligence 2012: Proceedings". arXiv:1204.2991...
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