Luis von Ahn

Author: Luis von Ahn

I am working to develop a new area of computer science that I call Human Computation. In
particular, I build systems that combine the intelligence of humans and computers to solve large-scale
problems that neither can solve alone. An example of my work is reCAPTCHA, in which over 750 million
people-more than 10% of humanity-have helped digitize books and newspapers

Publications

Publication period start: 2008
Number of co-authors: 8

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Ruoran Liu
2
Mihir Kedia
2
Manuel Blum
4

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Edith Law
3
Manuel Blum
4
Laura Dabbish
17

Publications

Ahn, Luis von, Dabbish, Laura (2008): Designing games with a purpose. In Communications of the ACM, 51 (8) pp. 58-67. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1378704.1378719

Ahn, Luis von (2006): Games with a Purpose. In IEEE Computer, 39 (6) pp. 92-94. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2006.196

Ahn, Luis von, Dabbish, Laura (2004): Labeling images with a computer game. In: Dykstra-Erickson, Elizabeth, Tscheligi, Manfred (eds.) Proceedings of ACM CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria. pp. 319-326. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/985692.985733

Ahn, Luis von, Blum, Manuel, Langford, John (2004): Telling humans and computers apart automatically. In Communications of the ACM, 47 (2) pp. 56-60. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/966389.966390

Ahn, Luis von, Liu, Ruoran, Blum, Manuel (2006): Peekaboom: a game for locating objects in images. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2006, . pp. 55-64. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124782

Ahn, Luis von, Kedia, Mihir, Blum, Manuel (2006): Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2006, . pp. 75-78. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124784

Ahn, Luis von, Ginosar, Shiry, Kedia, Mihir, Liu, Ruoran, Blum, Manuel (2006): Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2006, . pp. 79-82. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124785

Law, Edith, Ahn, Luis von (2009): Input-agreement: a new mechanism for collecting data using human computation games. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1197-1206. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518881

Hacker, Severin, Ahn, Luis von (2009): Matchin: eliciting user preferences with an online game. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1207-1216. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518882

Ahn, Luis von (2007): Human computation. In: Sleeman, Derek H., Barker, Ken (eds.) K-CAP 2007 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture October 28-31, 2007, Whistler, BC, Canada. pp. 5-6. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1298406.1298408

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