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Luis Von Ahn is a person that I can relate too. I absolutely love computers, and both my parents are from the great island of Puerto Rico. Both Spanish and computers are both in my blood. Luis Von Ahn is what I want to become when I grow up, a person who earns many awards for his works in computers. So, as we both share many qualities and interests, it is only natural that my report on "Famous Hispanics that have had an Impact on Science and Technology" is to be based on this amazing computer scientist and professor, Luis Von Ahn.

Luis Von Ahn was born in 1979, in the great city of Guatemala City, in the country of Guatemala. He had a normal childhood. He had attended the American School of Guatemala and he graduated in 1996. He then went on to recieve a Bachelor's Degree of Science from Duke University. He than went on to study at Carnegie Mellon University to recieve a Ph.D. in 2005. He had studied under the proffesor Manuel Blum. He was then awarded the A. Nice. Haberman development chair. This award is given only every 3 years so it is very prestigous. This was not the only award that he won however (Luis Von Ahn Wikipedia).

As an adult, he has won so many awards that you can barely count them all. These awards include: the MacArthur Fellowhip Award in 2006, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship Award in 2009, Sloan Fellowship Award in 2009, Microsoft New Faculty Fellowhip Award in 2007, and Presidential Early Carrer Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012 (Luis Von Ahn Wikipedia). As you can see, Luis Von Ahn has had a great amount of rewards for his great success. This amount of awards and medals and badges is very high, especially for the amount of work and skill that it takes to receive these awards. What has won him these awards however, are his amazing programs.

Luis Von Ahn has created many new programs that have helped us develop and evolve the technology world. The one that I will be telling you about is the reCAPTCHA. The reCAPTHCA is the system that is created to not allow robots or spam bots to make a lot of accounts such as email accounts or computer game accounts. This system has allowed us to revolutionize online security. With the use of this device, it is much harder for hackers to inflict viruses on computers and web sites (ReCAPTCHA). Though this product may not seem like a bid deal, it actually completely changes the web.

Luis Von Ahn actually started his work in the field of cryptography and then he transferred to the field of stenography. He was actually one of the first in that field to prove that private key steganography was. He then helped on the project of the ESP game. In this game, two people were paired together with no way to communicate. The goal was to see if both people had the same amount of words to describe a picture. This game actually went on to improve the Google Image Search tool. After that, because of his work with Google, they gave him a tech talk spot. He was actually watched by over one million viewers (Luis Von Ahn Wikipedia).

As you can see, Luis Von Ahn is a very inspirational figure. He helped develop many programs and he helped to make may different products. He also won many awards. In my opinion, he is one of the most influential people in the world. He has the same passion for computers that I have, and he has made a giant change in the technology world. I hope that you see now exactly what he has done and I hope that you now understand just how much he has done for the world.

Bibliography:
 * "Luis Von Ahn Wikipedia" // Wikipedia // . Wikimedia Foundation, 04 Nov. 2014. Web. 11 Apr. 2014. .
 * Good source because they got information from many good and valid links, and the information is the same as other sources. This was also reccomended by teachers.


 * "ReCAPTCHA." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Apr. 2014. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. <[]>
 * This is a good source because it's links are valid and this website was published by Luis Von Ahn himself.