Physics Nobel goes to scientists who enabled machine learning

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, the......

Why is Obama keen on unlocking the brain?

US President Barack Obama has announced a new research initiative designed to revolutionise the understanding of the human brain. "As humans, we can identify galaxies light years away, we can study......

Real Heroes Of Web Revolution

The tech creators, or the ones who made billions, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Just the other day, gazing from my home balcony at the distant hills of Raigad, I......

Is your brain connected to Wi-Fi?

Imagine a world in which a human only thinks, and a robot cooks the whole meal, says Kumar Abishek. Illustrations: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and his secretive......

Infosys co-founder donates $1.8 mn for brain research

Infosys co-founder donates $1.8 mn for brain research S Gopalakrishnan, one of the seven co-founders of IT major Infosys, has donated $1.8 million to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for brain......

'Robo Brain' to teach robots how to mimic humans

Researchers, including Indian-origin scientists, have designed a 'Robo Brain' that gathers information from the Internet to teach robots how the world works and how the humans around them behave.......

Obama's $100 mn BRAIN project to beat India, China

Pushing for job-creating discoveries to happen in the US rather than in India or China, President Barack Obama has unveiled an ambitious $100 million project to unlock the "enormous mystery" of the......

Make it easy for experts to come to India to teach: Narayana Murthy

India should make it easy for foreign intellectuals and experts to come here says the Infosys founder Speaking at the launch of N R Narayana Murthy Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain......

The Hollywood Star and CDMA

She was a Hollywood star, much sought after. She also helped invented technology which changed the world. Shivanand Kanavi on the amazing Hedy Lamarr. Today, November 9, is Hollywood actor Hedy......

Apna Asmaan doesn't move you

This week's release Apna Asmaan has already made its festival rounds and won accolades. Starring Irrfan Khan and Shobhana, the film dealswith the delicate issue of parenting and autistic children.......