Severin Hacker
| Severin Hacker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1984 (age 31–32) Zug, Switzerland |
| Residence | United States |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Luis von Ahn |
| Known for | Duolingo |
Severin Hacker (born 1984) is a Swiss computer scientist who is the co-founder and CTO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.[1][2][3][4]
Biography
Hacker was born and raised in Zug and studied at ETH Zurich. He moved to Pittsburgh to study at Carnegie Mellon University where he co-founded Duolingo with Luis von Ahn in 2009.[5]
References
- ↑ Siegler, MG (April 12, 2011). "Meet Duolingo, Google's Next Acquisition Target; Learn A Language, Help The Web". TechCrunch.
- ↑ "CrunchBase profile of Duolingo". CrunchBase.
- ↑ Geron, Tomio (September 17, 2012). "Duolingo Gets $15 Million To Translate The World's Text Through Online Learning". Forbes.
- ↑ Doyle, Patrick. "A novel approach to learning languages is making the Web more accessible". MIT Technology Review.
- ↑ "Not enough people, passion, capital?". StartupTicker.ch. June 12, 2015.
External links
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- Severin Hacker's official website
- Severin Hacker on Twitter
- List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- Severin Hacker at DBLP Bibliography Server
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