Bibliographic record
Abstract
ADAMS PASSED AWAY on March 23, 2011 in Mesa, Arizona, where he had been living for several years in a retirement home with his wife Joanna, who died in 2005.In his final years, he suffered from Parkinson's disease which affected his body but not his sharp mind and clear thinking.He will be sorely missed by his many friends, his colleagues in Islamic and Middle East studies, and his numerous former students all over the world.Charles Adams was born in Houston, Texas on April 24,1924.After graduating from high school in 1941, he entered Baylor University in Waco, Texas but his undergraduate studies were interrupted by World War II when he served from 1942 to 1945 in the U.S. Air Force as an airborne radio operator and mechanic.After resuming his university studies at Baylor, he obtained his B.A. in 1947.He then enrolled as a graduate student in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he studied History of Religions with Joachim Wach, wrote a doctoral dissertation on "Nathan Soderblom as an Historian of Religions," and was awarded his Ph.D. degree in 1955.During his years of graduate studies, he taught at Princeton, served briefly with a photo reconnaissance squadron in the Korean War, and won a Ford Foundation scholarship with a research residency in Pakistan.Meanwhile he had begun since 1952 his long association with McGill University's Institute of Islamic Studies, just founded then by Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith who was its director.Charles Adams was first a non-degree
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.072 | 0.033 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".