Establishing the chronology of the Vedas has interested scholars for the last two centuries. The oldest among them is Rig-Veda which has ten Mandalas, each composed separately. In this paper, we look at deciphering plausible pointers to the internal chronology of the Mandalas, by focusing on Gods and Goddesses worshiped in different Mandalas. We apply text analysis to the Mandalas using Clustering Techniques based on Cosine Similarity. Then we represent the association of deities with Mandalas using a grid-based Social Network that is amenable to chronological analysis and demonstrates the benefits of using Social Network Analysis for the problem at hand. Further, we analyze references to rivers to arrive at additional correlations. The approach used can be deployed generically to analyze other kinds of references and mentions and arrive at more substantive inferences.

Amazon Web Services Inc. has commissioned its first-ever major art piece, a site-specific sculpture powered by artificial intelligence and designed by artist and architect Suchi Reddy that will be the centerpiece of the Smithsonian's "Futures" exhibit. The artwork, called "me you," was unveiled today in the 90-foot-tall central rotunda of the Smithsonian's historic Arts and Industries Building in Washinton, D.C. It's an important locale as America's first national museum and because the interactive sculpture itself is nearly two stories tall. The sculpture takes up the center of the room, with a base that appears to have large fiber-optic cables sticking out of it toward people with inviting circular interfaces that Reddy (pictured, right) called "mandalas." Rising from the center of the sculpture is a broad, segmented series of panels called a "totem" upon which colorful kinetic patterned lights flow upward, representing interactive futures spoken to the artwork by the public. The idea of the artwork is to present how humans and technology interface and evolve together, Reddy told SiliconANGLE in an interview while she demonstrated the sculpture in action.