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  Ravindran Kannan , who is an Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, India is celebrating his birthday today( 12/03/2023 ).  He leads the algorithms research group at Microsoft. He is also the first adjunct faculty of  computer science and automation department of Indian Institute of science. He completed his B.tech in Indian Institute of technology, Bombay and Ph.D on Cornell University. On the year 1991 , he won the Fulkerson prize in Discrete Mathematics for his work on the volume of the convex bodies. On the year 2011 , he won the Knuth prize for developing influential algorithmic techniques which aimed at solving long standing computational problems. His major contributions are 1. Polynomial-time algorithm for approximating the volume of convex bodies, 2. Algorithmic version for Szemeredi regularity partition (study of large dense graph). Wishing this Indian Mathematician a Wonderful Birthday .

 Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin laden aka Osama Bin Laden founder of Pan-Islamic militant organization called al-Qaeda was born this day 65 years ago. He was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to a millionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin laden(father) and Hamida al-attas(mother) on 10th march 1957 . The United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union and various countries considered his militant organization (al-Qaeda) a terrorist group. Al-Qaeda under bin laden was responsible for the September 11 attacks in United States and many other mass casualty attacks around the world. He had nearly 26 children including Abdallah Bin Laden, Omar Bin Laden, Saad Bin Laden, and Hamza Bin Laden. He participated in many wars and battles such as battle of Jaji, battle of Tora Bora, Afghan war, operation Neptune etc. The courageous militant and founder of the al-Qaeda was shot to death by US forces in Pakistan on 2nd May 2011 .