Dale Hoiberg

Template:Short description Dale Hollis Hoiberg is a sinologist and was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1997<ref name=wsj>Template:Cite news</ref> to 2015.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He holds a PhD degree in Chinese literature and began to work for Encyclopædia Britannica as an index editor in 1978.<ref name="wsj"/> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

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• 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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