IUC 42: Keynote Speaker Announced

Carlos Pallan Gayol

      The Advent of Mayan Script Encoding: Mapping the Last Frontiers of
      Mayan Hieroglyphic Decipherment

*Carlos Pallan Gayol
/Archaeologist & Epigrapher, Dept. of Old American Studies & Ethnology,
University of Bonn/*

Mayan hieroglyphs rank among the most visually complex writing systems
ever created. Deciphering them has entailed a 200+ year scholarly quest,
but this task is not yet completed and posits an inviting challenge for
applying new tools from the information-age, culminating in the encoding
of the Mayan script. Join us Tuesday morning, September 11th
<http://www.unicodeconference.org/program.htm>, as this keynote
highlights the latest milestones attained in this pursuit by the NcodeX
Project, where Carlos Pallan collaborates with Dr. Deborah Anderson,
Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, the Script Encoding
Initiative and members of the Unicode advisory board. Stemming from
research funded by Unicode’s Adopt-a-Character
<https://unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html> Program, it has
been possible to produce new database tools and advanced
functionalities, capable of mapping and analyzing all the textual
contents of the extant Mayan books or Codices by relying on a novel
catalog of Mayan signs with assigned code points.

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