http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/ Engadget Comments for 'Handwriting' recognition offers accurate way for dating stone tablets http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/
I don't see how this technology is at all useful. How many 5,000 year old authors do we really know of?]]>Jul 3rd 2009 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Yeahhh...thats true.......OH, you were talking about the tablet? And date as in time? ]]>Jul 3rd 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/"seeking royalty payments for the works of your great uncle Xanthos."
will happen.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 3rd 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/
Of course, if a 3000-year-old Greek tablet turned up in suburban Ohio, I think they might be a little suspicious.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/"By overlaying digital scans of known inscribers' work, the Greek team are able to recognize stylistic idiosyncrasies and thereby identify the author of a carving."

I means it gonna recognize WHO wrote it, not HOW old it is.

And last time I checked, the Bible was not written in stone. Otherwise it would be a heavy reading.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/
I can see one application of this being the ability to root out forgeries. This could have found problems with the so called "Jesus Ossuary" from a few years ago. It could have found differences in the carving from the original text and the hoax text.

One of the degrees I hold is in archaeology, one of my profs was the person who examined the ossuary and I was in communication with him about the artifact.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/handwriting-recognition-offers-accurate-way-for-dating-stone-t/Jul 9th 2009 6:40PM