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Both Katz and Winston are prominent researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence and natural language. Winston is the Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at MIT, and Katz is a principal research scientist at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
The professors are not the first to accuse Ask Jeeves of patent infringement. Last July, in a suit that is still pending, Mountain View's IPLearn LLC, a company that uses natural language queries, filed a similar patent infringement suit in Oakland, Calif. Ask Jeeves denied the accusation.
While societies to debate religion are nearly as old as debate itself, HSS attempts to bring a level of humor and irreverence to the age-old question of belief. But some claim the group's cheeky skepticism runs the risk of creating more alienation than insight.
says Kirchhoff, who is also a Crimson editor. "A lot of students are interested in our group because the many traditions here force us to examine what we believe in and why."
A vocal group is necessary to represent non-believers, who are an oft-overlooked minority, Duraiswarmy says.