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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 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 is the co-founder, chief executive officer and board chairman of Duolingo, a language learning platform. He also co-founded reCAPTCHA, a service that uses captchas to digitize books and improve AI.
27 Jan 2020 · Luis von Ahn is the founder and boss of Duolingo, the world's most popular language learning app.
3 Mac 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.
16 Nov 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.
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.
