Podcast Episodes featuring Luis von Ahn
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American Dreaming with José Díaz-Balart: Luis von Ahn
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt - October 27, 2020 17:28 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratingsLuis von Ahn is the genius behind CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and also the founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform. Born and raised in Guatemala, von Ahn saw firsthand that high-quality educational opportunities were limited t...
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reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
How I Built This with Guy Raz - May 25, 2020 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29.3K ratingsIn 2000, Luis von Ahn was starting his PhD in computer science when he attended a talk and happened to learn about one of Yahoo's biggest problems: automated bots were signing up for millions of free Yahoo email accounts, and generating tons of spam. Luis' idea to solve this problem beca...
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#135: Luis Von Ahn on Learning Languages, Building Companies, and Changing the World
The Tim Ferriss Show - January 26, 2016 21:39 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 14.3K ratingsLuis von Ahn (@luisvonahn) is an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur Fellow ("genius grant" recipient), and selling two companies to Google in his 20's. Luis has been named one of the 10 Most Br...
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