Luis Von Ahn Biography

Luis Von Ahn is a Latin American entrepreneur who was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Luis is now is computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Luis has been credited with being one of the earliest proponents of crowdsourcing. He has also founded several companies, including reCAPTCHA. He sold the company to Google in 2009. He has won several awards for his research, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship. Luis has also been featured in several publications, including Discover Magazine, Popular Science Magazine, and Foreign Policy Magazine.

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