EDMONTON — “She made recommendations to the priest …”And that, mysteriously, is the start of an enigmatic medieval book that has baffled experts for generations — at least according to the Edmonton computer scientist who believes he’s cracked the baffling code of the Voynich manuscript. “I was intrigued and thought I could contribute something new.”The Voynich manuscript has been carbon-dated to the early 1400s. The manuscript even frustrated the famed cryptographers of Britain’s Bletchley Park, the team that broke the Nazis’ Enigma codes. Kondrak thought powerful artificial intelligence programs could help. “People may be fearing that the computers will replace them.”But Kondrak said there’s much more to translation than feeding the Voynich into a computer.

Source: National Post January 24, 2018 19:36 UTC