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Ask Luis Von Ahn why he decided to become an entrepreneur and he will tell you that the career actually chose him. When he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon in 2005, he developed a program that ...

Ask me to say a sentence that sounds like Shakespeare, and I might use a word like “forsooth” and say “doth” instead of “does.” But that’s shortchanging the bard on his sheer linguistic versatility, ...

Giuseppe Peano was, in his time, a towering mathematical genius. He was also a man who did a number of very unusual things – like making up a language, and insisting on lecturing his college students ...

I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 27 years and still don’t know a lick of Spanish. Sure, I can get by with the occasional gracias or muy bien, but that’s about it. Yet, despite my foolish ignorance in ...