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Baku, Azerbaijan, May 28 Trend: On May 23, 2018 a historic moment ocurred in scientific, cultural and humanitarian fields between Great Britain and Azerbaijan. At the Clarendon Building the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Professor Louise Richardson, and Head of the Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre on behalf of Azerbaijan, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the British Foundation for the Study of Azerbaijan and the Caucasus (BFSAC), Rector of the Baku Branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor Nargiz Pashayeva signed the contract under which, the Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre for the Study of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus and Central Asia will be permanently functioning at the University of Oxford as its integral part. 'The signed agreement … [Read more...] about ‘The signing ceremony that took place at the University of Oxford is comparable to the Contract of the Century in the field of science, education and culture for Azerbaijan’ Professor Nargiz Pashayeva (PHOTO)
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Cambridge University Researcher Lays Out Links With Facebook
By April 24, 2018, 8:05 AM EDT Aleksandr Kogan, the researcher who shared Facebook Inc. user data with Cambridge Analytica, has said that a supply of anonymized user information he received from the social network came with no contract and no obligation to destroy it."It was just ‘here’s an email, here’s a data set’," Kogan told U.K lawmakers Tuesday as part of a U.K. inquiry into fake news.Kogan said that in 2013 the social network provided him and his research students with anonymized user data, and that his eventual research he conducted was not particularly accurate."The data we collected as a lab was never sold," he said. "That would be a very serious break of ethics. That data never left my servers and was exclusively used by my PhD students."He said that only when he was approached by Cambridge Analytica parent company SCL did he create a commercial entity to collect new data. Along with Joseph Chancellor, a fellow researcher who now works at … [Read more...] about Cambridge University Researcher Lays Out Links With Facebook
Akcam to discuss Armenian Genocide at Columbia University
Turkish Professor Taner Akcam will be delivering a talk titled “Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide” at Columbia University on March 28, at 8 p.m, Armenian Weekly reported. The lecture will be followed by a signing of Akcam’s newly-published book of the same title. The event will take place at 329 Pupin Hall, 538 West 120th Street (at Broadway), Columbia University. The program is co-sponsored by the Armenian Center at Columbia University, the Research Institute on Turkey (RIT), the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR). In the immediate aftermath of the Armenian Genocide, Aram Andonian, an intellectual and survivor, sought out documents to establish the historical record about deportations and massacres. In 1918, Naim Efendi, an Ottoman bureaucrat in Aleppo sold to Andonian a cache of 21 original Ottoman documents, along with … [Read more...] about Akcam to discuss Armenian Genocide at Columbia University
Dawn of the Universe: Newly found signals from the very first stars may rewrite cosmic history
When did the first stars in the Universe emerge and do they still exist? Scientists peering back into time have discovered signals from the light of the very first stars in the universe. The new discovery also provides clues that could revolutionise our understanding of the mysterious dark matter particles and could rewrite cosmic history.The new-found signals also hint that our universe was much colder than previously thought. The faint hydrogen gas signals were picked up by a table-sized radio antenna – EDGES (Experiment to Detect Global EoR Signature) – located in Australia. It represents the earliest ever evidence of hydrogen found so far."There is a great technical challenge to making this detection," Peter Kurczynski, program director for Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation, in the Division of Astronomical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF), said in a statement. The NSF funding this project. "Sources of noise can be a thousand times brighter than … [Read more...] about Dawn of the Universe: Newly found signals from the very first stars may rewrite cosmic history
Big bucks : PUCIT wins Rs97 million research grant
Aims to establish research laboratory addressing traffic and transportation issues 0SHARES Share Tweet Email Traffic problems will be researched PHOTO: APP/FILE LAHORE: Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT) at the University of the Punjab (PU), won a competitive research grant of Rs97.705 million to establish a research laboratory addressing the problem of traffic and transportation using Information and Communication Technology. Dr Syed Waqarul Qounain is principal investigator of the lab and Dr Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Dr Shahzad Sarwar, and Mian Muhammad Mubashir are co-principal investigators. The teachers of PUCIT applied for the grant to establish Agent Based Computational Modeling Laboratory in the National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI). NCAI will consist of six research laboratories, one each at NUST, PU, UET (Lahore), CIIT, NED, and UET (Peshawar) with approximately Rs1.1 billion … [Read more...] about Big bucks : PUCIT wins Rs97 million research grant