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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: The Vesuvius Challenge with Juli Schilliger and Youssef Nader
Description: In 79 AD, in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash buried an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there was a vast library of papyrus scrolls.The scrolls were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris, but they were trapped underground where they remained preserved.It wasn't until the 1750s that the scrolls were discovered, but they were fragile and resistant to being opened and read.Then, in 2015, researchers used X-ray tomography and computer vision to virtually unwrap the scrolls.<...