Algorithms identified death notices in old newspaper pages, then another set of algorithms pulled names and other key details into a searchable database. From a report: Ancestry used artificial intelligence to extract obituary details hidden in a half-billion digitized newspaper pages dating back to 1690, data invaluable for customers building their family trees. The family history and consumer-genomics company, based in…
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Alan Turing Receives a (Late) Obituary From the NYT
“In recent years, The New York Times has been publishing obituaries of people long dead but who nevertheless would have been deserving of one when they died,” writes Slashdot reader necro81. “They call it their ‘Overlooked’ series. Today, their overlooked figure is British mathematician and prototype computer scientist Alan Turing.” Here’s an excerpt from the obituary: His genius embraced the first…