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Luis von Ahn

Computer Science

#6197

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#6533

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Artificial Intelligence

#5434

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#5509

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Luis von Ahn

Mathematics

#7804

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#10593

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Control Theory

#70

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#74

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Measure Theory

#3481

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#4106

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mathematics Degrees

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Luis von Ahn's Degrees

PhD Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelors Mathematics Duke University

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According to Wikipedia, Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo.

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Luis von Ahn's Published Works

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Labeling images with a computer game (2004) (2455)
CAPTCHA: Using Hard AI Problems for Security (2003) (1596)
Designing games with a purpose (2008) (1238)
reCAPTCHA: Human-Based Character Recognition via Web Security Measures (2008) (1189)
Games with a Purpose (2006) (1121)
Telling humans and computers apart automatically (2004) (904)
Peekaboom: a game for locating objects in images (2006) (641)
Human Computation (2008) (377)
Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts (2006) (366)
Input-agreement: a new mechanism for collecting data using human computation games (2009) (309)
TagATune: A Game for Music and Sound Annotation (2007) (259)
Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game (2006) (191)
Provably Secure Steganography (2002) (187)
Matchin: eliciting user preferences with an online game (2009) (166)
k-anonymous message transmission (2003) (127)
Why do tagging systems work? (2006) (119)
Duolingo: learn a language for free while helping to translate the web (2013) (117)
Breaking Audio CAPTCHAs (2008) (111)
Public-Key Steganography (2004) (70)
Improving Image Search with PHETCH (2007) (62)
Games with a purpose (2006) (50)
Word sense disambiguation via human computation (2010) (42)
ESP: Labeling Images with a Computer Game (2005) (39)
Covert two-party computation (2005) (37)
Improving Audio CAPTCHAs (2008) (27)
Human Computation for Attribute and Attribute Value Acquisition (2011) (21)
Selectively Traceable Anonymity (2006) (21)
Search war: a game for improving web search (2009) (17)
A Review of Bot Protection using CAPTCHA for Web Security (2013) (16)
Augmented intelligence: the Web and human intelligence (2013) (15)
Provably secure steganography: (Extended abstract) (2002) (6)
Attribute Learning using Joint Human and Machine Computation (2012) (4)
AI's 10 to Watch (2008) (4)
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation, Paris, France, June 28, 2009 (2009) (4)
Three human computation projects (2011) (3)
Invisible computing : Games with a purpose (2006) (2)
Collective Intelligence 2012: Proceedings (2012) (2)
Breaking Audio CAPTCHAs with Machine Learning Techniques (2008) (2)
Utilizing the Power of Human Cycles (2006) (1)
Augmented intelligence: the Web and human intelligence. (2013) (1)
Duolingo: Learn a Language for Free while Helping to Translate the Web (2012) (1)
Book announcement: Human Computation (2011) (1)
Solving Hard AI Problems Using Computer Games (1)
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report: Preface (2012) (0)
Senior Thesis 2006 Covert Multi-Party Computation (2006) (0)
Behind the Scenes of Duolingo (2015) (0)
Human computation (2009) (0)
Data generated as a side effect of game play also solves computational problems and trains AI algorithms (2010) (0)
Provably Secure Steganography ( Extended (0)

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