IATH Lecture Series
Prof. Gabriele Guidi Visits from Milan
Professor Gabriele Guidi, Department of Reverse Engineering, Politecnico di
Milano
March 12, 2007
Prof.
Gabriele Guidi (Department of Reverse Engineering, Politecnico di Milano)
visited IATH the week of March 12, 2007. Prof. Guidi is a leader in the application
of 3D scanning technology to cultural heritage. From 2004 to 2007, he was
the head of a team of engineers at the University of Florence and the Politecnico
di Milano who were responsible for digitizing the "Plastico di Roma antica" for
IATH's "Rome Reborn" project. Read More
Digital Restoration of Damaged Papyri:
Multispectral Imaging of Texts from Herculaneum, Tebtunis, Oxyrhynchus, and Beyond
Roger Macfarlane, Professor of Classics Brigham Young University
November 2, 2006
Professor Roger Macfarlane discusses his work in Multi-Spectral Imaging. In a joint project of the Egypt Exploration Society and Brigham Young University Multi-Spectral Imaging (MSI) technology was extremely successful in recovering previously illegible writing on several of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
Best Practices to Digital Panoramic Photography: QTVR and related
technologies
May 12-13, 2006
IATH,
with support from ARTstor and the Society of Architectural Historians,
held a workshop for developing a Best Practices guide for using digital
panorama photography in documenting cultural heritage sites.The workshop
was the organizing event for writing a comprehensive guide for scholars,
photographers, and students who want to use QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR)
and other panorama technologies.
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Spherical Photography and Cultural Heritage
Sites
April 28, 2006
Visiting
Fellows Michael and Barry Gross presented their work using QuickTime
VR (QTVR) to to document architecturally and historically important sites
in Europe and the US. Michael is the Technical Director of the Williams
College Virtual Architecture Project.
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Elizabeth Jerem: Archaelogical Parks in Hungary
April 25, 2006
Prof.
Elizabeth Jerem, Senior Research Fellow, Archaeological Institute of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Associate Professor,
Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University
of Miskolc, Hungary Executive Direktor of Archaeolingua Foundation, Editor
of the Publication Series ARCHAEOLINGUA. The aim of Professor's Jerem
presentation is to provide an overview on the history
of Hungarian archaeological presentation sites and parks, by going
through the various open-air museums in terms of their chronology and
function. More on Professor Jerem's talk.
Ian Johnson: Building a Collaborative
Knowledge Space for Humanist Scholars
April 11, 2006
Ian
Johnson, Director Archaeological Computing Laboratory & TimeMap Project
Senior Research Fellow, Archaeology University of Sydney, visited IATH
to present, Building a Collaborative Knowledge Space for Humanist
Scholars. His talk covered two tools for Humanist scholars - Heurist
and T1000 - which we have been developing as part of a Collaborative
KnowledgeSpace (CKS) project for the Sydney Humanities and Social Sciences
e-Research Initiative (SHSSERI). Details on this interesting talk.