Coppin State professor may have a lost Melville manuscript

An Associated Press article about a Maryland professor who may have found a lost Herman Melville manuscript that includes hints of what later would become his masterpiece “Moby Dick” reports the handwriting was analyzed by UB’s CEDAR forensics lab and that Sargur Srihari, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of CEDAR, presented a comprehensive forensic analysis in a paper.

Entitled “Determining Writership of Historical Manuscripts using Computational Methods,” the paper was presented at a 2013 workshop in Germany, where he concluded that there is “a high confidence result” that Melville is indeed the author of the communication known as the “Hydrarchos Manuscript.”

Articles appeared in news outlets around the country, including The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Kansas City Star, Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, and the Annapolis Capital Gazette.