Two Indian-American scientists are among 23 scientists who have won this year's prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for showing exceptional creativity in their respective fields. The Indian-Americans......
Two Indians are among the 24 talented individuals named for the prestigious MacArthur fellowship programme 2009. Computer Vision Technologist Maneesh Agrawala and Applied Mathematics specialist L......
Shwetak Patel, a 29-year-old computer scientist who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life through a broad......
Sujatha Baliga won America's most prestigious fellowship for her work on the journey to forgiveness and restorative justice.P Rajendran reports from New York. IMAGE: Sujatha Baliga, the only......
Indian-origin surgeon Atul Gawande, whose many articles and essays on medicine in The New Yorker have made him one of the most recognised of American writers, has won a $500,000 "genius" award from......
Fifteen achievers of Indian origin from various fields of academic interest have been chosen for this year's Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan's Global Indus Technovators Awards.The......
MIT, in a release, said the 'work of Duflo and Banerjee has emphasised the use of field experiments in research, to bring the principles of laboratory-style randomised, controlled trials to......
We live in a time ofaccelerating globalisation, mounting information, growing hegemony of science and technology andclash of civilisations.Our time calls for new ways of learning and thinking in......
The trio introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty IMAGE: The portraits of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kreme, who......