About Peter Z. Revesz
Peter Z. Revesz is a Hungarian-American professor, computer scientist, and linguistics researcher who uses computational linguistics to analyze ancient texts. Most recently, he has provided a promising interpretation of the Minoan Phaistos Disk inscriptions. Revesz has deep experience in applying advanced scientific methods to ancient languages and scripts. His formal technical training was at Brown University.
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Peter Z. Revesz holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Brown University (dissertation title: Constraint Query Languages, advisor: Paris C. Kanellakis). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto before joining the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is an expert in databases, data mining and analytics, bioinformatics and computational linguistics. He is the author of Introduction to Databases: From Biological to Spatio-Temporal (Springer, 2010) and Introduction to Constraint Databases (Springer, 2002). Dr. Revesz held visiting appointments at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, INRIA, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, the University of Athens, the University of Hasselt, the University of Helsinki, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the U.S. Department of State. He is a recipient of an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, a J. William Fulbright Scholarship, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, a Jefferson Science Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and a Faculty International Scholar of the Year award by Phi Beta Delta, the Honor Society for International Scholars.
Source: unl.edu on 07/11/2020
Top works
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| "Experimental Evidence for a Left-to-Right Reading Direction of the Phaistos Disk" | A Computer-Aided Translation of the Phaistos Disk | Data Mining Ancient Scripts to Investigate Their Relationships and Origins | |
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| 2022 | 2016 | 2019 | |
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Anonymous creator, The Phaistos Disc, c. 1600–1699 BCE. Clay disk, diameter: 0.16m [6.23 in]. Permanent Exhibitions Collection, Room III, Inventory No. AE 1358, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Evans, Arthur J. Scripta Minoa: The Written Documents of Minoan Crete with Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos. Vol. 1, The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1909.
Evans, Arthur J. The Palace of Minos / Vol. I: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. Vol. 1, The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1921.
Pernier, Luigi. "Il Disco di Phaestos con Caratteri Pittografici (Tav. IX-XIII)." Ausonia 3 (1909): 255-302.
Reczko, Wolfgang. "Analyzing and Dating the Structure of the Phaistos Disk." Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1, 241 (2009): 241–245. [Includes erratum published in November 2009]
Revesz, Peter Z. "A Computer-Aided Translation of the Phaistos Disk." International Journal of Computers 10, no. 1 (2016): 94-100.
Revesz, Peter Z. "Experimental Evidence for a Left-to-Right Reading Direction of the Phaistos Disk." Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 22, no. 1 (2022): 79–96.
Revesz, Peter Z., and Shruti Daggumati. "Data Mining Ancient Scripts to Investigate their Relationships and Origins / No. 26." In IDEAS '19 / Proceedings of the 23rd International Database Applications & Engineering Symposium, 1-10, edited by Bipin C. Desai. New York, NY: ACM Digital Library, 2019. [Presented at Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece, June 10-12, 2019]
Revesz, Peter Z., trans. "Minoan Sun Hymn." In "A Computer-Aided Translation of the Phaistos Disk," 95-98, authored by Peter Z. Revesz, International Journal of Computers 10, no. 1 (2016): 94-100.
