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Articles from April 2026

Paul Dilley awarded $500,000 from Schmidt Sciences to advance AI tools for restoring damaged ancient manuscripts

Tuesday, April 21, 2026
https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/2026/03/paul-dilley-awarded-500000-schmidt-sciences-advance-ai-tools-restoring-damaged-ancient?utm_medium=email&utm_content=Developing+AI+tools+for+ancient+manuscript+restoration&utm_source=d.clas.webservices&utm_campaign=Faculty+and+Staff+newsletter&utm_id=1035994741.1521504221
The three-year project, titled “AI Models with Reinforcement Learning to Edit Text in Damaged Manuscripts,” will produce software capable of reconstructing missing or illegible sections of historical documents, allowing scholars to study texts that have remained inaccessible for decades—or even centuries.
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