Nobel Prize

Delicately written, with a rhythm and lyricism that resembles many of Mr Cohen's songs, Learning from Silence is about living a full, robust life with eyes wide open and all senses ablaze

Two pioneers in the field of reinforcement learning, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, are the winners of this year's A M Turing Award, the tech world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize

Many machine learning algorithms start with humans "teaching" them the already known, and then letting the algo loose on existing data where it may find new patterns

Why Colonial Origins of Comparative Development is Nobel-worthy

Nobel Prize 2024 in Economic Sciences: Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's research delves into the formations of different political and economic institutions and how they affect a nation's prosperity

The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the firsthand horror they witnessed 79 years ago. Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was awarded for its decadeslong activism against nuclear weapons. The survivors, known as hibakusha, see the prize and the international attention as their last chance to get their message out to younger generations. We must seriously think about the succession of our messages. We must thoroughly hand over from our generation to the future generations, Toshiyuki Mimaki, senior member of the Hiroshima branch of Hidankyo, told reporters Friday night. With the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize, we now have a responsibility to get our messages handed down not only in Japan but also across the world. The honour rewards members' grassroots efforts to keep telling their stori

Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as Hibakusha.

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. Kang, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee announced the prize in Stockholm.

Former Google researcher Geoffrey Hinton, meanwhile, won the Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday, alongside US scientist John Hopfield, for earlier discoveries in machine learning

The prize was also the second this week to involve artificial intelligence, highlighting the technology's growing significance in scientific research

Honoured for neural nets, Hopfield and Hinton's Nobel raises questions on awarding contributions outside traditional physics

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded in two parts: one to David Baker, and the other jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for their contributions to decoding the protein structure

Hopfield's research is carried out at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto

The prize was awarded for their discovery of microRNA and its role in regulating genes after transcription

The prize week coincides with the Oct 7 anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, which began a year of bloodshed and war across the West Asia

People in Bangladesh have welcomed the new interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, hoping it would restore order, end repression and hold a fair election to facilitate a democratic transition of power. Yunus, 84, on Thursday took oath as the head of an interim government, replacing Sheikh Hasina who abruptly resigned and fled to India leaving the country in turmoil following deadly protests against her government over a controversial quota system in jobs. He was sworn in as the chief advisor - a position equivalent to prime minister. Women's rights activist Farida Akhtar, right-wing party Hefazat-e-Islam's deputy chief AFM Khalid Hossain, Grameen Telecom trustee Nurjahan Begum, freedom fighter Sharmeen Murshid, chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board Supradip Chakma, Prof Bidhan Ranjan Roy and former foreign secretary Touhid Hossain are among the advisory council members. Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury said that one of the

Amid crisis, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin announced that Muhammad Yunus was appointed as the leader of Bangladesh's interim government

There are greater goals in life than winning the Nobel Prize. At least, there ought to be. Or so, feels Nobel laureate thinker-philosopher-welfare economist Professor Amartya Sen who dubbed the award as a "nice thing to have", but opined that his life wouldn't have been wasted even without it. Sen said that the money he received from the prize helped him start Pratichi Trust, a research-based charity focussing on education and healthcare of children. "Nobel is an award I received but I don't think my life would have been wasted even if I didn't get it. It was nice to have received it. I got some money and could start a charity called Pratichi Trust involving education and healthcare elements of children," Sen said while speaking to PTI in an exclusive interview at his ancestral abode in Bolpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal. "There's also a little bit of luck involved in whether or not you end up getting one of these prizes... I do not think I had a goal to get the Nobel or any

Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy, currently facing the threat of prosecution over historic comments on Kashmir 14 years ago, was on Thursday honoured with the prestigious Pen Pinter Prize 2024 for her unflinching and unswerving writings. The prize, established in 2009 by the charity English PEN, defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter. Roy expressed her delight at being named this year's winner amid an incomprehensible turn the world is taking. I am delighted to accept the PEN Pinter prize. I wish Harold Pinter were with us today to write about the almost incomprehensible turn the world is taking. Since he isn't, some of us must do our utmost to try to fill his shoes, said 62-year-old Roy. The renowned author, who won the Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things', was chosen by this year's judges Chair of English PEN Ruth Borthwick; actor and activist Khalid Abdalla; and writer and musici

His writing won China's first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping's China? That's the question at the center of a high-profile lawsuit now driving a debate about nationalism in China. Patriotic campaigns have become more common in recent years in China, as online nationalists attack journalists, writers or other public figures they say have offended the country's dignity, but it is unusual for a figure as prominent as Mo Yan to be targeted. Patriotic blogger Wu Wanzheng, who goes by Truth-Telling Mao Xinghuo online, sued under a law that carries civil penalties and, in some cases, criminal punishments for perceived offenses against China's heroes and martyrs. Wu claimed Mo's books have smeared the Chinese Communist Party's reputation, beautified enemy Japanese soldiers and insulted former revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. The lawsuit filed last month demands that the author apologize to all Chinese people, the country's martyrs and Mao, and pay dama