Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
Luis von Ahn : Collaboration en ligne à très grande échelle.
Luis von Ahn builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone. Full bio
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Luis von Ahn - Computer scientistLuis von Ahn builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone.
Why you should listen
Louis von Ahn is an associate professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and he's at the forefront of the crowdsourcing craze. His work takes advantage of the evergrowing Web-connected population to acheive collaboration in unprecedented numbers. His projects aim to leverage the crowd for human good. His company reCAPTCHA, sold to Google in 2009, digitizes human knowledge (books), one word at a time. His new project is Duolingo, which aims to get 100 million people translating the Web in every major language.
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