Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hermes \Her"mes\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
   1. (Myth.) See {Mercury}.

   Note: Hermes Trismegistus [Gr. 'Ermh^s trisme`gistos, lit.,
         Hermes thrice greatest] was a late name of Hermes,
         especially as identified with the Egyptian god Thoth.
         He was the fabled inventor of astrology and alchemy.

   2. (Arch[ae]ology) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to
      Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in
      some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a
      quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body
      belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other
      parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures,
      though often representing Hermes, were used for other
      divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of
      human beings. Called also {herma}. See {Terminal statue},
      under {Terminal}.

Source : WordNet®

Hermes
     n : (Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of
         commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified
         with Roman Mercury

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Hermes
     
         An experimental, very high level, integrated
        language and system from the {IBM} {Watson Research Centre},
        produced in June 1990.  It is designed for implementation of
        large systems and distributed applications, as well as for
        general-purpose programming.  It is an {imperative}, {strongly
        typed} and {process-oriented} successor to {NIL}.
     
        Hermes hides distribution and heterogeneity from the
        programmer.  The programmer sees a single {abstract machine}
        containing processes that communicate using calls or sends.
        The {compiler}, not the programmer, deals with the complexity
        of data structure layout, local and remote communication, and
        interaction with the {operating system}.  As a result, Hermes
        programs are portable and easy to write.  Because the
        programming paradigm is simple and high level, there are many
        opportunities for optimisation which are not present in
        languages which give the programmer more direct control over
        the machine.
     
        Hermes features {threads}, {relational table}sHermes is,
        {typestate} checking, {capability}-based access and {dynamic
        configuration}.
     
        Version 0.8alpha patchlevel 01 runs on {RS/6000}, {Sun-4},
        {NeXT}, {IBM-RT}/{BSD4.3} and includes a {bytecode compiler},
        a bytecode->C compiler and {run-time support}.
     
        {0.7alpha for Unix
        (ftp://software.watson.ibm.com/pub/hermes)}.
     
        E-mail: , Andy Lowry
        .
     
        {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.lang.hermes}.
     
        ["Hermes: A Language for Distributed Computing".  Strom,
        Bacon, Goldberg, Lowry, Yellin, Yemini.  Prentice-Hall,
        Englewood Cliffs, NJ.  1991.  ISBN: O-13-389537-8].
     
        (1992-03-22)