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The Most Famous

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Guatemala

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This page contains a list of the greatest Guatemalan Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 201 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Guatemala. This makes Guatemala the birth place of the 34th most number of Computer Scientists behind South Africa and Syria.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Guatemalan Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Guatemalan Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Luis von Ahn (1978 - )

With an HPI of 37.49, Luis von Ahn is the most famous Guatemalan Computer Scientist.  His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.

Luis von Ahn (Spanish: [ˈlwis fon ˈan]; born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur, software developer, and consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as computer scientists born between 1978 and 1978. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living computer scientists include Luis von Ahn.

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