Luis von Ahn - 'How Duolingo Uses AI to Assess, Engage and Teach Better' (Joseph Priestley Award)

Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) will host Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder and CEO of Duolingo, to receive the annual Priestley Award and provide a public lecture.

About this lecture: Duolingo is the most popular way to learn languages in the world. With over half a billion exercises completed every day, we have the largest dataset of people learning languages ever amassed. In this talk, I will describe all the different ways in which we use AI to improve how well we teach and how to keep our learners engaged.

The Joseph Priestley Award recipient is chosen by a different science department each year. The Department of Mathematics & Computer Science have selected this year’s recipient. The event is supported by the College’s Priestley Fund and is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the departments of biology, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental studies, mathematics & computer science, psychology, and physics & astronomy and the Churchill Fund. It is part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series.