Like User:Shilad, his work involves both studying Wikipedia[7][8][9][10][11] and studying what artificial intelligence and NLP can gain from Wikipedia[5][12][13][14]. With regard to the former, he led and co-led some of the early work on the similarities and differences between the language editions[9][10], including the Omnipedia[8] project. With regard to the latter, Brent and colleagues leveraged Wikipedia in the Atlasify project, published at ACM SIGIR[12] (the top information retrieval venue). Atlasify should launch by the end of the year, with a WikiBrain-based backend! Brent was the closing keynote speaker at WikiSym 2012.