Again from explorator. I'd seen an article in one of the newspapers a long while ago, on a project (with which this individual was associated) to "read" remnant documents in Pompeii by X-raying them and then digitally "unfolding" them. Did it turn up any long lost books?
http://uknow.uky.edu/content/computer-science-professor-become-visiting-research-scientist-google-cultural-institute
http://www.lanereport.com/7452/2012/06/computer-science-professor-to-become-visiting-research-scientist-at-google-cultural-institute/