About This Lesson
When humans and computers work together, they can find solutions to many different types of problems. Guatemalan-American Luis von Ahn, an entrepreneur and a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, explains the science behind crowdsourcing and how the concept is helping solve such diverse problems as digitizing books online and translating the web to foreign languages. Learn how crowdsourcing helped to create Re-Captcha, Duolingo and Fold It.
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