DTN 082: DeepMind wins Nobel Prize for AlphaFold

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DTN 082: DeepMind wins Nobel Prize for AlphaFoldPlus: Air Force's mysterious spaceplane prepares for a novel maneuver, Taiwan's electricity problem, lunar material science, NOAA drops scientist’s ashes into the eye of a hurricane, and more.
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DTN 082: DeepMind wins Nobel Prize for AlphaFold
Plus: Air Force's mysterious spaceplane prepares for a novel maneuver, Taiwan's electricity problem, lunar material science, NOAA drops scientist’s ashes into the eye of a hurricane, and more.
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AI wins another Nobel, this time in Chemistry: Google DeepMinders Hassabis and Jumper awarded for AlphaFold
“A trio of scientists consisting of Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google’s AI division DeepMind, as well as John Jumper, Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and David Baker of the University of Washington have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work in predicting and developing new proteins. The DeepMinders won for AlphaFold 2, an AI system launched in 2020 capable of predicting the 3D structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences. Meanwhile, Baker won for leading a laboratory where the 20 amino acids that form proteins were used to design new ones, including proteins for ‘pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors,’ according to the Nobel committee’s announcement.” (VentureBeat)
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