Ancient killer vs novel threat: how the fights against malaria and Covid-19 compare
Eradicating malaria remains out-of-reach, despite a vaccine breakthrough. Why are we closer to beating Covid than this age-old threat?
23 April 2021 • 2:21pm
Malaria killed up to 300 million people in the 20th century - roughly the same number each year as Covid-19 has killed since the pandemic began
Credit: Christina Aldehuela/AFP
It is thought to be one of the oldest diseases in the world, dating back to before the dawn of humanity. And while some parts of the globe have successfully beaten it, for others it is a constant burden.
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Cambridge Quantum Appoints Professor Stephen Clark as Head of Artificial Intelligence
April 12, 2021 GMT
CAMBRIDGE, England, April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Cambridge Quantum Computing ( CQC ) are pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Stephen Clark as Head of Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Clark joins CQC from DeepMind where he was a Senior Staff Research Scientist and led a team working on grounded language learning in virtual environments. He also holds an Honorary Professorship at Queen Mary University of London.
Prior to DeepMind, Prof. Clark spent 10 years as a member of faculty at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, where he was Reader in Natural Language Processing. Before that, Prof. Clark was a member of faculty at the Oxford University Department of Computer Science, and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sc
Cambridge Quantum Appoints Professor Stephen Clark as Head of Artificial Intelligence
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