In 2017, while red-flagging the concern of biological warfare at an international security conference, philanthropist businessman Bill Gates underlined how a respiratory-spread pathogen could kill 30 million people in less than a year. Coronavirus has not emanated from a terrorist module, but it seems to have the potential to become exactly the global epidemic Gates was warning against. Within three months of its outbreak, coronavirus has already claimed over 3,200 lives and has spread to over 93,000 cases across 70 countries. Outside China which has borne most of the disease brunt, Iran has reported 92 deaths while Italy has reported 79. With WHO declaring it a public health emergency of international concern, the disease has also made its way to the US amid much criticism of the Trump administration’s initial handling of the health threat.

As the name suggests, the AI multi-agent shopping system is a shopping assistant, more like a recommendation engine. First, the system is fed with the details of a wide range of products. When a user registers in the system and searches for a specific product, the system returns the result of the most relevant items that match the search keywords entered by the user.

Do you know any other languages?

What words do you know in other languages?

What language do you wish you could learn?

What is the most useful language to know?

What do you think about English becoming the default language?

What do you think would be the hardest language to learn?

Overpopulation is caused by number of factors. Reduced mortality rate, better medical facilities, depletion of precious resources are few of the causes which results in overpopulation. It is possible for a sparsely populated area to become densely populated if it is not able to sustain life.

Why R&D?

What is research? And what is development? A layman would ask these questions to begin with. Follow-up questions would be: Does development really require research? Finally people may ask why develop? Why take such a hassle? Let’s copy and do something. The R&D story will end before it begins with this type of attitude. This is pretty similar to the Sri Lankan context which has resulted in lowly performance as a country.

What we need to understand is that the innovation through R&D is the major competitive advantage a country could have. According to an address by Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam to a gathering of tech students at Mahindra Ecole College in 2015, he claims that there are two sets of countries – developed countries and developing countries. The difference between these two are the competitiveness. Dr. Kalam takes the Global Competitiveness Index as an example. If we look at current rankings, Singapore is ranked one in the index.

The student may:
o appear to be in constant motion,
o frequently fidget or move in his or her seat,
o become restless during quiet activities,
o leave his or her seat when expected to remain seated,
o interrupt others and classroom activities,
o talk excessively, and/or
o fail to follow classroom procedures (e.g., blurt out answers without raising hand).