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Distributed Computing Protecting Archeological Sites

Deep learning to detect looting

    Sarah Parcak Satellite Archaeologist, University of Alabama at Birmingham Winner of the TED Prize for 2016. Like a space age Indiana Jones, Sarah uses satellite imagery to locate lost ancient sites. Winner of the prestigious 2016 TED Prize, she is making civilization’s invisible history truly visible and offering new understandings of our past. …

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