Columbia University
‘Consciousness’ in robots was once taboo. Now it’s the last word
Hod Lipson, a mechanical engineer who directs the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, has shaped most of his career around what some people in his industry have called the c-word.
At Columbia’s $600 million business school, time to rethink capitalism
NEW YORK - One zigs, the other zags. One teases the passerby with bands of translucent glass wrapping a core of clear windows; the other, with floors angled in and out - a gentle architectural mambo. The pair of buildings that comprise Columbia University's new business school, on its growing Manhattanville campus, exude a nervous off-kilter energy.
Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine
For years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping out polio in its last remaining strongholds, typically, poor, politically unstable corners of the world.
Crypto lending world sways under risk and turmoil
Starting with the lofty goal of competing with traditional banks, cryptocurrency lending giants and their clients now face financial ruin due to their appetite for risk and a paucity of regulatory guardrails.
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Minister Komitova: The Bus Crash on the Struma highway was not with High Speed
The Minister of Regional Development and Public Works architect Violeta Komitova presented the results of her inspection of the road section Dragichevo - Dolna Dikanya, where the bus accident from the Republic of North Macedonia took place.
Biden Advisor Keeps over 1 Million USD in Crypto-currency
Tim Wu, top advisor to the Biden administration on technology and competition policy, holds more than million in cryptocurrency, shows a recently filed financial disclosure. The antitrust expert, who is known as a prominent big tech critic, has in the past questioned the value of bitcoin.
Doctors Advise: Moderate Exercise in Midlife Prevents Brain Damage
Higher levels of leisure time physical activity in midlife was associated with less late-life brain damage on MRI, a prospective study suggested.
Amid lockdown, 'every single classroom' in Greece has gone digital, says PM
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece was able to continue teaching school children during the lockdown though remote learning, an innovation that many people would have thought "impossible" a year ago.
Μητσοτάκης: Σπόνσορας του δικτύου διακινητών στο Αιγαίο η Τουρκία
Συζήτηση του πρωθυπουργού Κυριάκου Μητσοτάκη με τον Πρόεδρο του Columbia University Lee C. Bollinger
New York Times leads the way at 2020 Pulitzers
The New York Times picked up the most awards as the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced virtually on May 4 owing to the coronavirus outbreak.
Prize board administrator Dana Canedy declared the winners from her living room via a livestream on YouTube rather than at a ceremony at New York's Columbia University.
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