“Luis Von Ahm claims he can translate Wikipedia – all 2 billion words of it – from English into Spanish in just 80 hours. What’s more, he will not have to pay anyone to do the work.” Von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist and serial internet entrepreneur, plans to unleash hordes of language students, armed [...]
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