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Luis von Ahn

1978 - Today

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Luis von Ahn (Spanish: [ˈlwis fon ˈan]; born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan-American 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis von Ahn has received more than 1,234,009 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Luis von Ahn is the 180th most popular computer scientist (up from 183rd in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Guatemala (up from 38th in 2019) and the most popular Guatemalan Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Luis von Ahn ranks 180 out of 245. Before him are Dave Cutler, Alan Cooper, Peter Shor, Yoshua Bengio, Audrey Tang, and Henriette Avram. After him are Sugata Mitra, Edward F. Moore, Noga Alon, Andrew Morton, Pat Hanrahan, and Geir Ivarsøy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Luis von Ahn ranks 247. Before him are Zoë Bell, AJ McLean, Shannyn Sossamon, James Badge Dale, Konstrakta, and Abu Azrael. After him are Marko Jarić, Taís Araújo, Mike Bryan, Emmanuel Olisadebe, David Krumholtz, and Bebe.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Luis von Ahn ranks 37 out of 44. Before him are Fruto Chamorro (1804), Sandra Torres (1955), Carlos Batres (1968), José María Orellana (1872), Ricardo Arjona (1964), and Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (1932). After him are Thelma Aldana (1955), Carlos Ruiz (1979), Norma Cruz (1962), Soluna Samay (1990), José Francisco Calí Tzay (1961), and Marco Pappa (1987).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Guatemala

Among computer scientists born in Guatemala, Luis von Ahn ranks 1. 

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