Technology

 Hedy Lamarr. Not only did the Vienna-born actor flee a loveless marriage to a Nazi arms dealer to secure a seven-year, $3,000-a-week contract with MGM, and become (probably) the first Hollywood star to simulate a female orgasm on screen– she also took time out to invent a device that would eventually revolutionize mobile communications.

University of California, Berkeley (=10th)- Home to the free-speech and disability-rights movements, Berkeley is a US hot spot for intellectual conversation, according to Lonely Planet, and is “one of the most vocal activist populations in the country.”

“Virtuagym Fitness – Home & Gym” is an application that helps people to have their personal trainer.

Diners at the RoboChef restaurant in north Tehran’s Sadat Abad neighbourhood have been served by robots.The restaurant’s owner Hussein Zibadel explained that their goal was to “get people more familiar with modern technology, for them not just to watch it on television., “SOT, Mehrdad Ahmadi, customer (Farsi): “This idea is very new and amazing. From my point of view, our ...

Cumrun Vafa born in 1960 is an Iranian-American string theorist from Harvard University, which he first joined as a Harvard Junior Fellow. He is the recipient of the 2008 Dirac Medal and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.