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    Online Collaboration

    How can typing in those online security words help us digitize books? Learn a new language? Translate the web? Hear computer scientist Luis von Ahn share how his massive collaborative project is doing all of that – for free.

    Luis Ahn
    Computer Science Professor, Carnegie Mellon; Founder & CEO, reCAPTCHA & Duolingo

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    Web: Life Online, Presented by Cars.com

    The Internet has revolutionized how we live, shop, communicate, travel, eat, play games and learn. On a whole, has it improved lives or taken over? Experts will educate our audience on how the web affects every aspect of our life ? from privacy, piracy, data gathering and more ? how is the Internet impacting us daily?

    Speakers: Jim Gilliam, Brad Keywell, Eric Lefkofsky, Deb Roy, Christopher Soghoian, Kara Swisher, Luis von Ahn

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