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$42,500 in Progress Prizes Awarded
10 winners; April efforts underway
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Stephen
Segmentation prize doubled to $100,000!
Also: new wish list items; hiring a segmenter; first progress prize round closed
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Stephen
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March 2024

First 2024 Progress Prizes: 1 week left!
Also: Grand Prize celebration; community resources
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February 2024

$500,000+ in New Prizes!
Milestones as well as open-ended progress prizes
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Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll!
The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures.
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January 2024

Open Source Prizes awarded
4x$3,000 in prizes!
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December 2023

$1000 Private Progress Pics Prize
A tiny prize for privately sharing your progress with us, by Friday Dec 15th.
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Many Open Source Prize winners; 25 days left for Grand Prize; another $12k in prizes
SO CLOSE to reading the scrolls!
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November 2023

New scans of Herculaneum papyri at insane resolutions
~15x more pixels per cm3 and many more incident energies
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October 2023

The Race Is On — second and third place Grand Prize ($100k, $50k), four new $5,000 Open Source Prizes, and more!
We’re going to read the scrolls.
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First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student
Vesuvius Challenge $700,000 Grand Prize “now definitely achievable”
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Segmentation Tooling 2 winners
Serious breakthroughs in segmentation!
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