Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and software developer. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. For these projects and others, von Ahn is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing.
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Anima AnandkumarAlso won Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Raymond KurzweilAlso won Grace Murray Hopper Award
Konstantin NovoselovAlso won Innovators Under 35
Esther DufloAlso won Sloan Fellowship
Carolyn BertozziAlso won Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Manjul BhargavaAlso won Packard Fellowship for Science and EngineeringAbout this person
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Dates
Born 1978 · age 48
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