Raoul Smith ’64 AM, ’68 PhD reports that he put his knowledge of Russian, learned at Brown and in the Air Force, to use building intelligence interfaces to databases. These became cores to AI systems developed during the mid-’70s. He wrote Collins Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, which he published in 1990, one of five books and more than 70 articles merging computers and the humanities. In retirement, he translates the Old Church Slavonic texts written on the medieval icons in the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Mass.
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