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Bar-Ilan University student Shauli Ravfogel is among this year's new cohort of four early career researchers who have received the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship for 2022-2023.
In the world of historical document research, automatic reading of handwritten manuscripts and textual search of their contents has remained an unattainable dream. While optical character recognition (OCR) of printed material is today commonplace, deciphering and transcribing individual Medieval handwritings has remained out of reach, especially for less common alphabets like Hebrew.
Bar-Ilan University Prof. Emeritus Ed Greenstein's English translation of the Book of Job was the subject of an answer – and a question – on a recent episode of the popular US TV game show "Jeopardy".