Luis von Ahn
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Most of us have heard of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA and many also know what it is. But how many know the developer/inventor of it: Luis von Ahn. He is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CMU and has already won several awards and fellowships even though he is only 30 years old. A few days ago a received a message that Luis von Ahn was on the show on NOVA scienceNOW. This short clip gives some insight who he is and what he does or better said what he did so far.
About four months ago I was attending a lecture of Luise von Ahn which was called Teaching Shenanigans. He gave this lecture because he won the “Herbert A. Simon Award for Excellence in Teaching” in 2008. In this lecture he gives some insights on his tricks he uses to teach the class “Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science”.
Download - Teaching Shenanigans
Do you think you would like this class as a student?
