Indian-origin AI expert, Jitendra Malik In the bustling town of Mathura, India, a young boy named Jitendra Malik found himself captivated by puzzles, patterns, and the invisible logic of the world. That boy would one day help teach machines to see. His journey from school classrooms in Jabalpur to the elite laboratories of UC Berkeley,…
John L. Young, who used his experience as a computer-savvy architect to help build Cryptome, a vast library of sensitive documents that both preceded WikiLeaks and in some ways outdid it in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets, died on March 28 at a rehabilitation facility in Manhattan. He was 89. His death, which…
Philip Sunshine, a Stanford University physician who played an important role in establishing neonatology as a medical specialty, revolutionizing the care of premature and critically ill newborns who previously had little chance of survival, died on April 5 at his home in Cupertino, Calif. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his daughter Diana…