Word: mcdermott
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...Rachel McDermott, a Ph.D candidate in Religion, will depart on October 1 for Calcutta, India, in the hope of improving Western scholarship on the Bengali goddess, Kali. McDermott said that her investigation will consist of studying the Bengali poetic tradition, especially during the 19th-century, devoted to this deity...
Specifically, McDermott plans to translate these texts to English, observe contemporary uses of this poetry, and analyze the significance of the goddess in modern Indian culture...
...There's a lot of devotional poetry to her that is not published and not known in the West," McDermott said. She said she hoped to observe "how this poetry is used in temples and [in] informal gatherings" of Calcutta followers of Kali...
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What saved the fledgling industry was the discovery that applied artificial intelligence could produce concrete results when properly used. In 1978 the Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment Corp. joined forces with AI Theoretician John McDermott of Carnegie Mellon University to develop XCon (for Expert Configurator), a system to assist salesmen in choosing parts for DEC computer systems from among tens of thousands of alternatives. XCon went on line in 1981, and for several years it was the only expert system in commercial use that companies could employ to gauge the worth of their technology. Today XCon configures almost every Digital computer...