Toby Walsh notes that there may be as few as 10,000 PhDs in AI globally. “I think that’s a really important observation for the world to understand,” he says. “There are few revolutions that can change the planet that are driven by such a small number of people.
More than 75% of the Earth’s oceans remain unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored. Dr Jyotika Virmani, Director of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, is on a mission to enable scientists to embark on voyages of discovery.
Children with limb differences will need at least 10 replacement limbs by the time they reach the age of 20, putting prosthetics well out of reach for many families. At about $2,500 each, the prosthetic bionic limbs developed by Cure Bionics come in at a fraction of the cost of the usual options.
Around the world few people have a clue what happens to their poo after it’s flushed away. But for environmental engineer Emily Woods, the question of managing human waste has occupied her mind since her undergraduate years.
He has been Director-General of the Ministry of Education in Finland, held a professorship at Harvard University and is now professor of education policy at the University of New South Wales. But after high school, when he tried to get into a teaching degree course in Finland, he was knocked back.
For 20 years, Mark Hutchinson has been breaking down territorial boundaries. His career has thus become not just a case study in highly original research, but a simultaneous battle against intellectual bureaucracy.