Erez Lieberman Aiden pursues a broad range of research interests, spanning genomics, linguistics, mathematics ...
Why you should listen
Erez Lieberman Aiden is a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Visiting Faculty at Google. His research spans many disciplines and has won numerous awards, including recognition for one of the top 20 "Biotech Breakthroughs that will Change Medicine", by Popular Mechanics; the Lemelson-MIT prize for the best student inventor at MIT; the American Physical Society's Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Biological Physics; and membership in Technology Review's 2009 TR35, recognizing the top 35 innovators under 35. His last three papers -- two with JB Michel -- have all appeared on the cover of Nature and Science.
Erez Lieberman Aiden’s TED Talk
Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden
What we learned from 5 million books
13 minutes 52 secondsHave you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.Posted Sep 2011
