Biography:Dale Hoiberg
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Short description: British sinologist
Dale Hollis Hoiberg is a sinologist and has been the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica since 1997.[1] He holds a PhD degree in Chinese literature and began to work for Encyclopædia Britannica as an index editor in 1978.[1] In 2010, Hoiberg co-authored a paper with Harvard researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden entitled "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books". The paper was the first to describe the term culturomics.[2][3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?". The Wall Street Journal. September 12, 2006. Archived from the original on January 15, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160115195822/http://www.wsj.com/public/article/SB115756239753455284-A4hdSU1xZOC9Y9PFhJZV16jFlLM_20070911.html. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
- ↑ Bradt, Steve (December 16, 2010). "Oh, the humanity". Harvard Gazette. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/12/cultural-genome/. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
- ↑ Michel, J.-B.; Shen, Y. K.; Aiden, A. P.; Veres, A.; Gray, M. K.; Pickett, J. P.; Hoiberg, D.; Clancy, D. et al. (December 16, 2010). "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books". Science 331 (6014): 176–182. doi:10.1126/science.1199644. PMID 21163965.
External links
- Hoiberg names some of the new 15-person board's members "some of the smartest people on Earth"
- Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?, Jimmy Wales debates Dale Hoiberg (subscription required)
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