– Quanti anni hai, piccolina? – Oh, nemmeno quattro. – Apperò. Come parli bene. – Credo perché sono morta, rispose tristemente la bimba. – Prima era diverso. La nuova storia pubblicata da Giulio Iovine sulle Paresie menzionate da due epitaffi provenienti da Cirene e datati al II secolo d.C. è ora disponibile nella...
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We are happy to inform you that the IDEA directorial committee met yesterday to evaluate the seven applications we received for the CIEGL financial support call and award the grants. After a thorough review of all the proposals, the committee decided to award a 650€ grant to each of the following candidates: Marta Fogagnolo, who will present a...
Read More »Ithaca: Restoring and attributing Greek inscriptions using Artificial Intelligence
We are pleased to announce the publication of the paper titled “Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks” on the cover of this week’s issue of the scientific journal Nature. This work is the result of a collaboration between the Universities of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Oxford and Athens AUEB, and Google’s DeepMind. The...
Read More »Call for two postdoctoral researchers in Byzantine Studies and Digital Humanities
Feature image: Michael, magistros und stratelates, Avers (Sammlung Sopracasa no. 59) Foto: https://bit.ly/3rJz7o6 ***ENGLISH BELOW*** Chers/Chères Collègues, dans le cadre du projet “DigiByzSeal – Dévoiler la richesse cachée des sceaux : nouvelles méthodologies pour la recherche historique dans le domaine des études byzantines”...
Read More »Financial support to CIEGL participants
The International Digital Epigraphy Association (IDEA) decided to sponsor young scholars who are going to participate to the next AIEGL Congress that will be held in Bordeaux from August 29th to September 2nd, 2022. We will happily receive proposals from young scholars who have completed their PhD in the last 15 years, presenting a paper or a poster to...
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