Piecing together the priceless 'Cairo Genizah'
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 10:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The Cairo Genizah is an irreplaceable repository for information about 1,000 years of human history. But the 350,000 fragments that make up the Genizah are scattered worldwide. Researchers are now putting all these pieces back together with a computer program based on facial recognition technology.