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◆ People. ◆ Academics. ◥ University. Luis von Ahn. Luis von Ahn (born 1979) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.[2] 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.[3] As a professor, his research includes CAPTCHAs and human computation,[4] and has earned him international recognition and numerous honors.

He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a., the "genius grant") in 2006,[5][6] the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in 2009, a Sloan Fellowship in 2009, and a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship in 2007, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[7] in 2012. Siglo Veintiuno, one of the biggest newspapers in Guatemala, chose him as the person of the year in 2009. In 2011, Foreign Policy Magazine in Spanish named him the most influential intellectual of Latin America and Spain.[8] Biography[edit] Work[edit] Teaching[edit] See also[edit]

Christopher Alexander. ◇ Mark Bennett. ◇ Stella Cottrell. ◇ Peter Checkland. ◇ Pat Cryer. ◇ Alex Conner. ◇ Robert Feldt. ◇ Martin Greenhow. ◇ Shaogang Gong. ◇ Walter Lewin. ◇ Yair Levy. ◇ Derek S. Pugh. ◇ Estelle M. Phillips. ◇ Dan Remenyi. ◇ Elie Wiesel.