Luis von Ahn (Spanish: [ˈlwis fon ˈan]; born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and software developer. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, [2] and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. [3]

Feb 16, 2020 · La increíble historia de Luis Von Ahn, el emprendedor que creó el sistema de autentificación en Internet "Captcha" y que revolucionó la forma de aprender idiomas con su plataforma "Duolingo".

Luis von Ahn is the co-founder and CEO of the language-learning website and mobile app, Duolingo. He is also the co-creator of CAPTCHA, the challenge–response test used in computing to determine if the user is human, and creator of reCAPTCHA, a …

May 25, 2020 · Luis' idea to solve this problem became CAPTCHA, the squiggly letters we type into a website to prove we're human. He gave away that idea for free, but years later, that...

Computer scientist Luis von Ahn and National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee co-invented the website security program CAPTCHA, created reCAPTCHA, which furthered the work of CAPTCHA and then he co-founded Duolingo.

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". [15]

Luis von Ahn, the inventor of reCAPTCHA and co-inventor of CAPTCHA, set out to fight socioeconomic disparities by breaking down barriers to education. He co-founded Duolingo in 2011, a platform bringing free and accessible language-learning to everyone, helping to remove obstacles to social mobility across the globe.

Mar 13, 2014 · Von Ahn watched the work on CAPTCHA and decided it had potential beyond distinguishing humans from robots — the extra 10 seconds people were taking to access their email and other accounts could be...

Computer scientist Luis von Ahn co-invented the website security program CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing test for telling Computers and Humans Apart. He then created reCAPTCHA, which furthered the work of CAPTCHA while assisting in the digitization of books and other archives.

Sep 12, 2018 · Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University consulting professor and CEO of Duolingo, has just been announced as the winner of the 2018 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention. Von Ahn has been a pioneer in cybersecurity as a co …