Imaging Science and Technology

Rochester Chapter Society for Imaging Science and Technology

Website: http://rochesterengineeringsociety.wildapricot.org/ISandT

Save these Tentative Dates (Venue & Topics/Speakers TBA):

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - Program from Carestream Health

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - RIT Student Presentations

Our meetings are held at 6:00pm in Room 1275 of the Carlson Center for Imaging Science on the RIT campus. Everyone is welcome to attend. Parking is available in the F lot, just north of the building. No meeting reservations are required.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Venue ideas requested – we are soliciting input regarding other possible venues for our meetings.

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Spectral Imaging of Manuscripts: Recovering the Future of the Past by Roger Easton, Rochester Institute of Technology

Abstract:

The convergence of new imaging technologies and the urgent need to preserve historical texts will stimulate the study of many historical manuscripts in the very near future. The recent application of sophisticated imaging technologies to ancient manuscripts is providing scholars with new windows into the past. At the same time, the detailed images of these unique historical documents will capture and preserve information for future historians to glean additional findings. The importance of image archives that provide worldwide access to these images is crucial to the preservation of this very important facet of the world's cultural heritage.

Biography:

Roger Easton has been on the faculty of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at RIT since 1986. He has been working on the application of modern imaging technologies in the study of historical manuscripts since 1995. He headed the imaging team for the Archimedes Palimpsest project from 2000 - 2011 and participated in the imaging the palimpsests at St. Catherine's Monastery, the Syriac-Galen palimpsest, the c. 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus Germanus, and the "Jubilees" palimpsest at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan in January 2017.

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