The Vesuvius Challenge: Resurrecting a Library of Ancient Scrolls

Learn about the papyrus scrolls discovered at the Villa dei Papyri at Herculaneum buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the groundbreaking challenge to virtually unwrap and read them.
Program:
The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (and Malibu)
Kenneth Lapatin, Getty Museum
The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum
Federica Nicolardi, The University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Unburied by Technology: Revealing the Ancient Library from Herculaneum
Brent Seales, University of Kentucky and Vesuvius Challenge
The Vesuvius Challenge: Where We Go from Here
Nat Friedman, Vesuvius Challenge
Introduction of Vesuvius Challenge Award Winners
The Vesuvius Challenge is an international competition intended to advance machine learning and computer vision solutions to the enigma of the Herculaneum Papyri. Learn more and read the announcement about the winners, what they accomplished and next steps.
www.scrollprize.org
This program was presented at the Getty Villa and Online on Saturday, March 16, 2024, www.getty.edu/visit/cal/event....
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[@toi_techno]

Every time I see stuff on this it blows my mind again

[@PACotnoir1]

Felicitations to the team led by Youssef. But it's a shame that the US State Department did not allow him to participate physically at this event.

[@hiphaestis]

Listening to this is about as close to being a time traveler as I am likely to get! So stimulating! So exciting!

[@Drevorub]

Elder Scrolls

[@VoicesofMusic]

Laissez les bons temps se dérouler !

[@christopher4098586]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Wally733]

I don’t know why this is recommended for me to watch because I usually watch urban ghetto stuff on CZcams 😂😂😂 but hey 🤷🏾‍♀️ this was a good 2 hours of my time.

[@Yannick.D]

🙏

[@bencorwin]

Incredible!

[@pattersondsmccd]

Very inspiring!

[@bradleydanuser8270]

Lest we forget the map on Richard Janko’s office door 😬

[@sedelstein]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@toi_techno]

There had been considerable archaeology done well before Mussolini and his fascists wanted Roman propaganda imagery fo use
Slightly strange allocation of credit by the speaker