Three researchers won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
ZDNET In Depth: Go inside the 20-year journey to decode the Herculaneum scrolls, carbonized by a historic volcanic eruption two thousand years ago - and unreadable until now.
The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the grand prize winners of its global AI contest to virtually unwrap a still-rolled carbonized papyrus scroll from the ancient city of Herculaneum.
For the last 20 years, Brent Seales, a computer science professor in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been working on an artificial intelligence program to virtually unwrap and read these unopenable scrolls.
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