Louisville & Lexington Sections Joint Holiday Party
Hard-Hearted Scrolls: Reading the Herculaneum Papyri
The scrolls of Herculaneum were sealed away in 79 AD, when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Herculaneum and nearby Pompeii in many meters of mud, rock, and ash. Discovered in the 18th century, these scrolls represent the only surviving library from antiquity. Charred and brittle, the scrolls are too fragile to be opened physically, and many hundreds remain unopened and unread. This talk will present the modern, noninvasive efforts to reveal the contents of the scrolls. After two decades of development, techniques combining X-ray CT imaging, software, and machine learning are enabling the scrolls to be read for the first time.
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- Date: 07 Dec 2023
- Time: 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) America/Kentucky/Louisville
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- 401 Champions Way
- Simpsonville, Kentucky
- United States 40067
- Building: University of Louisville Golf Club
- Starts 13 November 2023 12:00 AM
- Ends 29 November 2023 06:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) America/Kentucky/Louisville
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Stephen Parsons of Vesuvius Challenge
Dr. Stephen Parsons, PhD. Research Adviser, Vesuvius Challenge
Biography:
Dr. Stephen Parsons is a recent PhD graduate of computer science at the University of Kentucky. During his PhD, Stephen was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his work using machine learning to detect the subtle presence of ink in CT scans of the Herculaneum scrolls. This work led to the first successful noninvasive recovery of hidden text from this collection, previously unseen for 2,000 years. Stephen is now a research advisor for Vesuvius Challenge, a $1,000,000 global research contest launched during his PhD to extend his methods and scale them across more of the collection.
Email:
Address:University of Kentucky, 857 Sparta Court, Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40504
Agenda
6:00 PM – Reception with Cash Bar
7:00 PM – Dinner
7:30 PM – Presentation
Menu: Dinner Buffet, Cash Bar
Price: $25 members and guests. $5 students. Pay at the door. Cash or Check.
RSVP: Dan Cambron, Chair Lexington Section. Please RSVP to ieee@danielcambron.com no later than Nov. 29th.
Please note that we must pay for all dinners that we reserve.
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