Fodder for Thought: The Artificial Intelligence of the Modern University

Considered in Greek mythology to be a member of the fifth generation of beings to appear after the creation of the world, Cadmus was a Phoenician prince and the founder of the Boeotian city of Thebes. A great slayer of monsters, he appears in Herodotus as the conduit through which the Phoenician alphabet was introduced to the ancient Greeks, whose own alphabet eventually developed as a result. His name, when taken as Phoenician in origin, is said to mean something like ‘of the east’; if of Greek origin, it translates as ‘one who excels’. [More here.]