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Luis von Ahn was born and raised in Guatemala City. He is of German-Jewish and Guatemalan descent. [9] His mother was one of the first women in Guatemala to complete medical school. She gave birth to von Ahn at age 42, and raised him as a single mother. [10]
The reCAPTCHA program originated with Guatemalan computer scientist Luis von Ahn, [14] and was aided by a MacArthur Fellowship. An early CAPTCHA developer, he realized "he had unwittingly created a system that was frittering away, in ten-second increments, millions of hours of a most precious resource: human brain cycles".
Initially, Hacker and his former graduate advisor, Luis von Ahn, wanted to develop an application that could translate internet sites, so that they would be accessible for non-English speakers. They felt that automated translation software wasn't as effective as using the skills and knowledge of bilingual speakers. [7]
Von Ahn’s commitment to keeping Duolingo free for its users ironically became the competitive advantage that allowed it to disrupt the online language-learning world and reach a $10 billion ...
Before Luis von Ahn co-founded Duolingo, a gamified language-learning app used by hundreds of millions around the world, he was fixated on squiggly letters. Since then, von Ahn has moved on to ...
Luis von Ahn Ryan Williams [1] Website: www.cs.cmu.edu /~mblum: Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938) is a Venezuelan born American computer scientist who received the ...
Luis von Ahn; Z. George D. Zamka This page was last edited on 24 June 2024, at 00:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Luis von Ahn is the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning app with more than 31 million monthly active users. The public company has a market cap of over $9 billion.