Career
He is currently an associate professor of journalism at American University in Washington, District of Columbia Lih worked as a software engineer for American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Labs from 1990 to 1993. He founded the new-media startup Mediabridge Infosystems in 1994. He also obtained a Masters degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1994.
From 1995 to 2000 he served as an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia, and director of technology for their Center for New Media.
In 2000 he formed Columbia"s Interactive Design Laboratory, a collaboration with the university"s School of the Arts to explore interactive design for both fiction and non-fiction, including advertising, news, documentaries and films. Soon afterward, Lih served as an assistant professor and the Director of Technology at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong.
He then moved to Beijing, China, where he lived until 2009. He currently lives in Washington, District of Columbia, where he is an associate professor at American University"s School of Communication.
Lih is a veteran Wikipedia contributor, and in 2009 published the book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World"s Greatest Encyclopedia.
Lih has been interviewed in a variety of publications, including Salon.com and The New York Times Freakonomics blog, as an expert on Wikipedia.
