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The 2024 Nobel Prizes have taken many by surprise, as AI researchers are among the distinguished recipients in both Physics and Chemistry. Geoffrey Hinton and John J. Hopfield received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work on neural networks. In contrast, Demis Hassabis and his colleagues John Jumper and David Baker received the […]
Crystallographer Helen Berman co-founded the Protein Data Bank in the 1960s. Credit: Rutgers University The 2024 Nobels were all about artificial intelligence (AI). Pioneers of computer neural networks underlying AI scooped the physics prize , and chemistry went to two scientists who developed the revolutionary AlphaFold protein-structure prediction tool and one who pioneered protein design […]