Is nothing secret anymore? How a ‘prediction market’ may have guessed the Nobel Peace Prize winner before the world knewUnusual betting activity on a prediction platform raised questions about the Nobel Peace Prize announcement. Maria Corina Machado was named...
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Nobel Prize 2024 Winners: Here's the full list across all categoriesNobel Prize Winners 2024: The 2024 Nobel Prizes, awarded in categories such as medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economi...
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Nobel Prizes highlight the intersection of AI and fundamental researchThis year's Nobel Prizes highlight AI's significant role in basic research, illustrating how computing blurs scientific boundaries. Winners...
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Why John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won 2024 Nobel Prize in PhysicsJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work on artificial neural networks. Hopfield devel...
08 Oct, 2024, 03.42 PM IST
Nobel Prize in Physics: Who are John J Hopfield and Geoffrey E Hinton?John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering work in neural networks and...
08 Oct, 2024, 03.40 PM IST
Nobel Prize 2024 in Physics awarded to John J. Hopfield & Geoffrey E. HintonNobel Physics Prize 2024: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E....
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Indian-American mathematician C R Rao awarded International Prize in Statistics at 102In his remarkable 1945 paper published in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, Rao demonstrated three fundamental results tha...
10 Apr, 2023, 11.23 PM IST
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig win 2022 Nobel Economics PrizeThe prize, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last of this year's crop of...
10 Oct, 2022, 06.42 PM IST
ET View: Nobel for Abhijit BanerjeeWhile Banerjee got his PhD from Harvard, he did his Bachelor’s in economics from Presidency, Calcutta and his Master’s from JNU.
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- 'Ignorance causes problems like racism, bigotry, fanaticism' (Lead, correcting intro)
Kolkata, Jan 9 (IANS) American Nobel laureate in Physics David J. Gross on Tuesday said many of the major problems in today's world such as...
09 Jan, 2018, 06.52 PM IST
- Google Doodle honours German physicist Max Born
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The Google Doodle on Monday celebrated the 135th birth anniversary of German physicist and mathematician Max Born ...
11 Dec, 2017, 12.38 PM IST
- Five professors among Infosys Prize winners
Bengaluru, Nov 15 (IANS) Five eminent professors and a director were selected for the Infosys Prize 2017, said the software major's Science...
15 Nov, 2017, 08.27 PM IST
- Universe not expanding at accelerating rate: Study
London, Oct 25 (IANS) Challenging a standard cosmological concept, a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist has found that t...
25 Oct, 2016, 11.17 AM IST
At 7.6%, India is the fastest-growing economy or the best data fudger7.9% growth is something else: a crazy statistical fudge, a delight for emperors in need of clothes, spikes in the hearts of Kuznets. Here ...
03 Jun, 2016, 06.32 PM IST
Seven Indian-Americans awarded Sloan Research FellowshipSeven Indian-Americans have been selected for a fellowship programme by Alfred P Sloan Foundation for their contribution to science-related...
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Leakages will be small in cash transfers: James A MirrleesMirrlees said that the Indian government was trying to manage the subsidies well by introducing direct cash transfers to the poor.
08 Jan, 2013, 04.40 PM IST
- Indian-born wins Math Nobel Prize
Chennai-born-Varadhan was cited for 'in particular for a unified theory of large deviations'.
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