IAE Computer Group Conference 2008

The IAE Computer Group (Informatique et Egyptologie, I&E) will be meeting in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on the 8-11 of July this year. The conference itself will start on Wednesday the 9th and 10th.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum
IAE 2008 meeting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum

The conference fee is 30 Euros and includes a visit to the Heurigen restaurant for a typical Viennese party.

Here is a very basic overview:

Wednesday, 9 July:
Session 1: Modelling and Animation
Session 2: Text Corpora and Text Processing

Tuesday, 10 July:
Session 3: Databases
Session 4: Images, Bibliography and Tools

A more detailed programme can be found at the IAE Computer Group’s website below and also abstracts from the speakers including:

Vincent EUVERTE of the Rosette Project: A computer-assistance for the student, the epigraphist, and the philologist

Claus JURMAN: The Memphite Database Project

Edward LORING: Sharing Images in the Internet

Marcus MÜLLER: Encoding Vignettes of the Book of the Dead

PhD Hana NAVRÁTILOVÁ / Dr. Renate LANDGRAFOVA: The Database of First Intermediate Period biographical texts

Mark-Jan NEDERHOF: Automatic alignment of hieroglyphic and transliteration

Elaine SULLIVAN and Willeke Wendrich: An Offering to Amun-Ra: Building a Virtual Reality Model of Karnak

You can read more about the conference at the IAE Computer Group Meeting 2008 website.

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