Speakers Erez Lieberman Aiden: Researcher
Erez Lieberman Aiden pursues a broad range of research interests, spanning genomics, linguistics, mathematics ...
Why you should listen to him:
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.
Quotes by Erez Lieberman Aiden
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“Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.”
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“What we’re left with is a collection of five million books, 500 billion words, a string of characters a thousand times longer than the human genome — a text which, when written out, would stretch from here to the Moon and back 10 times over — a veritable shard of our cultural genome.”
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What we learned from 5 million books
- 14:08 Posted: Sep 2011
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Conferences
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- TEDxBoston 2011