He later earned his PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Īt age 18, von Ahn began studying at Duke University, where he received a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics, summa cum laude, in 2000. This experience left him with a negative impression of "extractive" testing industry, ripe for disruption. When he applied to colleges in the United States, Von Ahn had to spend more than $1,200 to fly to neighboring El Salvador to take the TOEFL. When von Ahn was eight years old, his mother bought him a Commodore 64 computer, beginning his fascination with technology and computer science.
He attended the American School of Guatemala, a private English-language school in Guatemala City, an experience he cites as a great privilege. His mother was one of the first women in Guatemala to complete medical school, and had a child with Von Ahn despite being single at age 42. He is a Guatemalan of German-Jewish descent. Von Ahn grew up in a wealthy household with both of his parents working as physicians. Luis von Ahn was born in and grew up in Guatemala City. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. Luis von Ahn ( Spanish: born 19 August 1978) is a German-Guatemalan entrepreneur and a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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