◆ 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. ◇ BENNETT, Mark. ◇ COTTRELL, Stella. ◇ CHECKLAND, Peter. ◇ CRYER, Pat. ◇ CONNER, Alex. ◇ FELDT, Robert. ◇ GREENHOW, Martin. ◇ GONG, Shaogang. ◇ LEWIN, Walter. ◇ LEVY, Yair. ◇ PUGH, Derek. ◇ PHILLIPS, Estelle. Herbert A. Simon. Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science.
With almost a thousand very highly-cited publications, he was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century.[4] Simon was among the founding fathers of several of today's important scientific domains, including artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, attention economics, organization theory, complex systems, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He also received many top-level honors later in life. Early life and education[edit] Herbert Alexander Simon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 15, 1916. ◇ REMENYI, Dan. ◇ WIESEL, Elie.