Remember, around the time Vikram lander was negotiating a soft landing on the far side of the moon as part of the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, India’s 18-year old Chess grandmaster, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, was engaged in a tooth-and-nail fight on 64-square board with Norwegian Magnus Carlsen at FIDE World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan in August 2023. The idea that chess sharpens …
The 2022 Lasker Award for public service was given to an engineer from Johns Hopkins University for building a website to monitor COVID-19 cases around the world. According to a press release from the Lasker Foundation, the dashboard set "a new standard for public health data science" and assisted in guiding both private decisions and public policy. Yuk Ming Dennis …
NEW YORK — A Johns Hopkins University scientist who created a website to track COVID-19 cases worldwide is the recipient of this year’s Lasker award for public service. The dashboard set “a new standard for public health data science” and helped inform both personal decisions and policy, the Lasker Foundation said in a release. The prize for medical research was …
