The Power Beyond The Like Button In Facebook
Now there is some interesting news for Facebook buffs as they will have six new emotions to use very soon. While discussing the quarterly earnings report with analysts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not reveal much about the latest development. This new emotion now will give more than just the thumbs-up symbol that people normally click to register their like for a photo, video or comment. The six new emotions will include sad, wow, angry, haha, love and yay. Though, not much of the information on the emotions has been revealed by Zuckerberg.
The CEO sees this as a way to give people an opportunity to share their emotions better. He said, “We want people to be able to share all of the things that are meaningful to them, not just the things that are happy and that people are going to like when they see it,” Zuckerberg said Wednesday.” He added that these six choices would help people to express their thought effectively and give an opportunity to remain on the social networking site longer. The reactions are being tested in the Philippines, Chile, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Ireland, and Colombia. The new option will be offered to the world simultaneously, and there are so more refinements needed before it is done informed Zuckerberg.
Science Initiative For US – Israel Announced
Recently, a scholarship program for American students to study Sciences in Israel was announced. The leading real estate magnate and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman announced the above. It is the Zuckerman STEM leadership program that is taking things in a different way. It will be providing around $100 million and more scholarship opportunities. The program promises its contribution for the next 20 years. Funding for American graduates will be supplied diligently. They will be studying post-graduate researches in Israel. World renowned Israeli universities have led to many incredible discoveries.
Top most universities include Tel Aviv University, The Weizmann Institute Of Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion-Israel Institute Of Technology. The collaboration is necessary to enhance the cultural and technical heritage of a country. This program enables the American graduates to gain the best of opportunities from the top most Israeli institutes. The next generation of American and Israeli academicians will get a very good opportunity through this program. Zuckerman officially announced this initiative at the Harvard Club Of New York City.
Andrew Cuomo of Democratic Gov. attending the event said It is a great help for American students to learn and work alongside some of the leading researchers in Israel. Such programs can develop societies as a whole. This is anticipated by most people who have known about the program. The news conference was also attended by Ada Yonath, Eric Kandal, Aaron Ciechanover and Richard Axel. These are some of the best global noble laureates. Zuckerman is the chairman of Boston Properties. Alongside, he is also a publisher of the Daily New York news and US news.
It will be a significant step towards building healthy foreign relations as well. Exchange of American and Israeli expertise will pave the way for modern technologies to come. Science is a vast field to be explored. More the number of minds, more will be the productivity of research. Similar hopes are coming up with the program put up by Zuckerman. The funding is in the process, and the scholarship program is already drawing a lot of attention. It will also encourage many postgraduate aspirants to take their knowledge further.
A Look at Marvin Minsky’s Death
One of the best pioneers of artificial intelligence Marvin Minsky died aged 88. He is one of the most renowned personalities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He developed the parallelism between computers and the human brain. Minsky died at the Birmingham and Women’s Hospital on Sunday. The cause of his death is considered as cerebral Hemorrhage. According to Minsky, human brain functionalities can be coded. He also replicated the human brain functioning in a computer. His research was to find out how machines can be given the power of human intelligence.
The director of MIT Daniela Rus said Minsky is the one who gave us the idea of artificial intelligence as we fell and see it today. Minsky remained as MIT’s faculty for really long time. He joined MIT long back in 1958. Previously, he received degrees from Harvard and Princeton Universities, where he met his colleague John McCarthy at Princeton. Later, in the 1959m the duo found the human intelligence project of MIT. Now, it is known as MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence lab. McCarthy is the one credited for defining the name artificial intelligence.
According to the reports shared by the NY times, the lab built by Minsky and McCarthy brought the notion that digital information should be freely shared. Not only till artificial intelligence, Minsky also led the foundation of many other notable projects. He was the one to build the very first ultrahigh resolution confocal microscope. The instrument has become an integral part of biological science today. He got awarded with the Turing award in the year 1969. Turing is the computer science’s highest award. He also wrote world class books namely “The society of mind” and “The emotion machine”.
Director Stanley Kubrick got suggested by Minsky in his 1968 classic fiction ” 2001: A space Odyssey”. Kubrick himself visited Minsky to know if computers would actually talk by 1002. Minsky also served in the Navy during the World War II. His wife Gloria Rudisch is a pediatrician. They have three children and four grandchildren. Having led a perfect life with incredible achievements, Minsky left us with enough memories to remember him always.