Each year, Brigham Young University sponsors a Family History Technology Workshop. This year’s workshop featured Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google. Lectures discussed emerging technology that will impact our genealogy research.
In case you missed the conference, BYU has now published abstracts and slides of the lectures. Take a look at some of the lecture titles:
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Exploring Syllables, Romanization, and Analogy in Names
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Assessing Geo-Location and Gender Information in Han Chinese Personal Names
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Genealogical Implicit Affinity Network
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Binarization for OCR
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Towards Searchable Indexes for Handwritten Documents
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The Bit Mountain Research Project
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ScanStone: Automated Exposure
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Using Structured Neural Networks with Record Linkage
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Census Index Merge
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Identifying Genealogical Content on the Web
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Family Finder Prototype
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Extensible Linear Manager
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High-Level View of a Source-Centric Genealogical Model: "The Model with Four Boxes"
To access the abstracts and slides, click here.
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