There are tons of opportunities to apply tech to ancient languages. The problem is there isn't much money in it. I'd love to see a well-executed online critical edition with hyperlinks and diffs for comparing manuscripts. I wrote a script once to read in dactylic hexameter and automatically scan it. A tool to export L'Annee Philologique entries as bibtex would be awesome, but their native format is a mess, and you'd have to detect bibliography words like "and", "ed.", etc. in French, German, Spanish, and others.
When I was at Penn I kept hearing stories about how one of the sons of Hewlitt or Packard (I forget which) had a lot of classics-and-programming projects, but I don't know any specifics.
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