{"id":956,"date":"2024-02-05T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herculaneum.classics.ox.ac.uk\/?p=956"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:59:45","slug":"vesuvius-challenge-grand-prize-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/vesuvius-challenge-grand-prize-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Grand Prize has been awarded! $700,000 to the winning team in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrollprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vesuvius Challenge\u00a0<\/a>for identifying continuous text from the interior of a still-rolled Herculaneum papyrus with the aid of CT scanning and machine learning. The Herculaneum Society has been involved from the start. Read about it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrollprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here\u00a0<\/a>on the Vesuvius Challenge\u00a0website and also in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/feb\/05\/ai-helps-scholars-read-scroll-buried-when-vesuvius-erupted-in-ad79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guardian,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00346-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2024-ai-unlock-ancient-world-secrets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg\u00a0<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scrollprize.org\/master_plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More prizes\u00a0<\/a>have been announced for 2024 to build on this foundation with the aim of reading 90% of the roll by the end of the year.\u00a0\u00a0 [05\/02\/2024]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Prize has been awarded! $700,000 to the winning team in the\u00a0Vesuvius Challenge\u00a0for identifying continuous text from the interior of a still-rolled Herculaneum papyrus with the aid of CT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}