Six courses offered by two universities in Hong Kong have been listed among the top 10 in their respective global league tables, according to a ranking organisation, which also warned that financial cuts to the city’s higher education institutions could affect their competitiveness. The city also accounted for the most universities in Asia among a…
A recent unclassified war game conducted by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed that increasing US nuclear capabilities would not deter China from employing atomic weapons in a conflict over Taiwan, Taipei Times reported. The findings, published in a report on Friday, challenge current…
An annual gathering of the world’s top minds in artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining wider attention as it emerges as the new battleground in the competition between the US and China, according to event attendees. The six-day Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, wrapped last week in Vancouver, Canada, and attracted more than…
China should focus on developing original technologies and scientific knowledge and leverage the expertise of scientists returning from the United States, according to a top Chinese-American mathematician. Yau Shing-Tung retired from Harvard University in 2022 to teach at Tsinghua University and help China become a maths powerhouse. He said many ethnic Chinese students had been…
A Chinese woman has emerged as one of the youngest and richest individuals in the country, having been listed on the “Hurun China Rich List 2024” with a net worth of 8.5 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion). Following the release of the mainland rich list on October 29, 35-year-old Wang Shuo quickly became the focus of…
At the age of 17, Aristotle went to study at Plato’s Academy, where he spent 20 years, eventually developing his own system of knowledge. Clearly, he regarded knowledge as an end in itself. Being able to devote decades to study is wonderful for someone who just wants to learn, but most 17-year-olds today simply don’t…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in a roundtable with the CEOs of American tech companies including Google and Adobe. In the roundtable anchored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in New York, Modi focused on fostering collaborations in cutting-edge fields such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and biotechnology. He also shared details of his…