Artificial Neural Networks for Physics and Medicine: The Two Nobel Laureates in Physics and Science announce their 2018 Nobel Lectures on Monday, November 11
“This year’s two Nobel Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” the Nobel committee said in a press release.
Ellen Moons, a member of the Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said the two laureates “used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets.”
She said that the networks have been used in a variety of ways, from advances in physics to facial recognition and language translation.
Three scientists won last year’s physics Nobel for providing the first split-second glimpse into the superfast world of spinning electrons, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses.
Six days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize. John Hopfield was a winner of the physics prize.
The physics prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. It has been awarded more than once. The anniversary of the death of the Prizewinner is on Dec. 10, the day the awards ceremony will take place.
Nobel announcements continue with the chemistry physics prize on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The economics award will be announced on October 14.
The 2016 Chemistry Prize Winner: An Artificial Intelligence Model for the Development of Proteins and Nanomaterials Based on Baker’s Novel Design
The research group of Baker has created over a dozen imaginative protein creations since 2003 as a result of Baker’s novel design, which can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials, and tiny sensors.
According to the committee, an artificial intelligence model created by Hassabis and Jumper has been able to determine the structure of virtually all the proteins that have been identified.
The chemistry prize was awarded to four scientists for work on the building blocks of life.
