Anil Ananthaswamy

Anil Ananthaswamy is an Indian-American author, award-winning science journalist, and the former deputy news editor at ''New Scientist,'' a popular science magazine in London. His writings, particularly on physics, astronomy, quantum theory, neuroscience, and computer science, have regularly featured on publications including ''New Scientist,'' ''Quanta'', ''Scientific American'', ''PNS Front Matter'', ''Nature'', ''Nautilus'', ''Matter'', ''The Wall Street Journal,'' ''Discover'', and the UK's ''Literary Review''. In 2019, he was fellow under the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2024, his latest book, ''Why Machines Learn,'' received widespread acclaim, with Nobel laureate and AI pioneer Geoff Hinton, labelling it a "masterpiece."

Since 2011, Ananthaswamy organizes and teaches an annual two-week science journalism workshop to a cohort of ten science writers and journalists from across India, at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. Until April 2025, he was journalist-in-residence at the Simon Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California, Berkeley. Provided by Wikipedia