The AI+AI Project: Using Artificial Intelligence to help Decode the Ancient Indus Script

Name: The AI+AI Project: Using Artificial Intelligence to help Decode the Ancient Indus Script
Start: 2025-01-10T16:30
End: 2025-01-10T17:30
Location: Alladi Hall

Bio

Omar Khan is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Columbia and Stanford Universities. He is based at San Francisco where he recently retired as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Common Sense Media which he helped start in 2004. He is well known in the community of scholars and enthusiasts interested in the Indus Valley Civilization for establishing and developing the website Harappa.com from 1995. He also collects and researches early photography and ephemera of the subcontinent and is author of two books, Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018) and From Kashmir to Kabul The Photographs ofJohn Burke and William Baker 1860-1900 (Mapin/Prestel, 2002).