The 2024 Nobel Prizes have taken many by surprise, as AI researchers are among the many distinguished recipients in each Physics and Chemistry. Geoffrey Hinton and John J. Hopfield received the Nobel Prize in...
The decision from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences woke him in the course of the night. Or somewhat, his wife did. She answered the phone at their home in Washington, D.C. and...
To Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, from DeepMind, and to David Baker, leader of the Institute for Protein Design(Disclaimer to the Editor: all original ideas, and most text here was written by myself, but...
Hinton shares the award with fellow computer scientist John Hopfield, who invented a kind of pattern-matching neural network that would store and reconstruct data. Hinton built on this technology, generally known as a Hopfield...
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work developing ‘AlphaFold,’ a protein-generating artificial intelligence (AI). That is the second award within the AI field, following Professor Geoffrey...
Hassabis and Jumper created AlphaFold, an AI tool that in 2020 solved an issue scientists have been wrestling with for many years: predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein from a sequence of amino...
As inspirational because it is to scan all these names and connections in The Nobel Network, and despite the way it makes me truly feel as if I’m “standing on the shoulders of giants,”...