This year’s new members from Brown are Michael Littman, a professor of computer science and associate provost for artificial intelligence; Saul Olyan, a professor of Judaic studies and religious studies; Leela Prasad, a professor of religious studies; and Joseph Silverman, a professor of mathematics.

Karen Stern has been appointed as a Guggenheim Fellow as a part of their 101st class.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new National Endowment for the Humanities grant will enable a Brown University professor to lead a large-scale computational analysis of the ways in which knowledge and ideas were shared across Jewish communities from 200 to 2000 C.E.

Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Michael Satlow and a team of Israel-based scholars plan to develop advanced AI and natural language processing techniques — adapted for historical Hebrew and Aramaic sources — to analyze more than 130,000 texts spanning 18 centuries.

Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies Michael Satlow publishes new book