Media: 18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm
| Submitter: |
Brent Woo
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| Submitter Email: | bwoo@linguistlist.org |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Computational Linguistics Translation Writing Systems |
| Media Body: |
A team of Swedish and American linguists use translation techniques similar to the statistical algorithm used in Google Translate to crack the heretofore undeciphered 18th-century Copiale Cipher. The Voynich Manuscript remains impregnable. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html |
| Issue Number: | 22.4172 |
| Date Posted: | October 24, 2011 |
