On the Cover of Science!

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Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Jean-Baptiste Michel*, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden, Adrian Veres, Matthew K. Gray, The Google Books Team, Joseph P. Pickett, Dale Hoiberg, Dan Clancy, Peter Norvig, Jon Orwant, Steven Pinker, Martin A. Nowak, and Erez Lieberman Aiden*.  Science 331 (2011) [Published online ahead of print: 12/16/2010].

Read it here! Culturomics also appears on the cover of Science! The image is a photograph from Idiom, a sculpture from Matej Krén currently showing in Prague.

On December 16th, 2010, a team spanning the Cultural Observatory, Harvard, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the American Heritage Dictionary, and Google published a paper describing the Culturomics approach online in the journal Science, and at the same time launched the world’s first real-time culturomic browser on Google Labs.

*joint first authors

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