Thursday, June 30, 2011

Sound Video: TED Talk of Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for the Indus Script



"Spider Language" by Karin Lisa Atkinson


Music, Talk and Tech: TED Talk Video ~ Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for the Indus Script
Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization.