Michael Sperling

Michael has more than 40 years of experience as a software expert and entrepreneur. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Courant Institute. After consulting to Citibank for a number of years, Michael founded and sold two data mining companies. During that period, he was granted 3 patents in the fields of similar document detection and query expansion. Most recently, Michael has been working in the new field of Digital Humanities, applying NLP to ancient Jewish texts in such areas as Social Network Analysis and Author Attribution.