tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post4287070613420032033..comments2024-03-24T19:29:46.463-07:00Comments on Ancestral Discoveries: The Cairo Genizah, May 31Janice M. Sellershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466785140555595069noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-71450767435217533062015-09-29T01:04:12.519-07:002015-09-29T01:04:12.519-07:00Marina Rustow, a history professor at Princeton Un...Marina Rustow, a history professor at Princeton University who has been using the documents salvaged from the Cairo genizah to study Jewish and other society in the Medieval Middle East, was awarded a MacArthur Foundation genius grant: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/944/.Janice M. Sellershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08466785140555595069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-12079921807149761702013-05-28T21:52:35.142-07:002013-05-28T21:52:35.142-07:00Dick Eastman's May 27 newsletter included a li...Dick Eastman's May 27 newsletter included a link to a New York Times story about the use of a powerful computer network running an artificial intelligence program to piece together the damaged and destroyed documents from the Cairo genizah:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/middleeast/computers-piecing-together-jigsaw-of-jewish-lore.html?_r=0<br /><br />This project, which isJanice M. Sellershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08466785140555595069noreply@blogger.com