What is Luis von Ahn?
[[Image:Wikimania 2015 - Day 2 (18) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Von Ahn at [[Wikimania]] 2015]] '''Luis von Ahn''' (born August 19, 1978) is a [[Guatemala|Guatemalan]] [[entrepreneur]] and a professor at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. He is known for his work in crowdsourcing, and he founded [[reCAPTCHA]], later sold to [[Google]], and [[Duolingo]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-04|title=Innovator Under 35: Luis von Ahn, 29 - MIT Technology Review|url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=631|access-date=2023-12-11|website=web.archive.org|archive-date=2021-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104095011/http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=631|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Luis von Ahn|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/|access-date=2023-12-11|website=www.cs.cmu.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ahn|first=Luis von|title=Luis von Ahn {{!}} Speaker {{!}} TED|url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/luis_von_ahn|access-date=2023-12-11|website=www.ted.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=dblp: Luis von Ahn|url=https://dblp.org/pid/78/391|access-date=2023-12-11|website=dblp.org|language=en}}</ref> == Early Life and Education == Von Ahn was born in [[Guatemala City]] to a well-off family. His mother, a pioneering woman in Guatemala's medical field, had him at age 42. He attended the American School of Guatemala and developed an early interest in [[technology]]. Von Ahn studied at [[Duke University]], earning a [[Bachelor's degree]] in [[Mathematics]] in 2000, and later received a PhD in [[Computer science|Computer Science]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|title=SCS Directory|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/directory/index|access-date=2023-12-11|website=www.cs.cmu.edu|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA|url=https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html|access-date=2023-12-11|website=Official Google Blog|language=en}}</ref> == Career and Researc