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Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

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Re: Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

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Post by world2vec »

devilzhong wrote: post #30
world2vec wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's founder and CEO of the AI lab that build Alphafold?

Then maybe Sergey and Larry should also get the prize since they founded Google, which owns Deepmind?

They were not equal contributors to the seminal paper that got the prize. From another post in this thread:

"These authors contributed equally: John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, Russ Bates, Augustin Žídek, Anna Potapenko, Alex Bridgland, Clemens Meyer, Simon A. A. Kohl, Andrew J. Ballard, Andrew Cowie, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Rishub Jain, Demis Hassabis"

Re: Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

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Post by falcor84 »

pyb wrote: post #28
aborsy wrote: post #19

The AlphaFold paper has countless authors, many researchers and company resources underlying it. Hassabis’ contribution is management of resources and entrepreneurship, not the actual science. There are hundreds of thousands of scientists out there doing deep technical work, and they aren’t recognized. I think we might be the end of it, as the emphasis shifts to commercialization and product development. These AI dem…

The paper has a mention : "These authors contributed equally: ..." However, it appears that some the authors were more equal than others.

The Nobel prize isn't awarded for a paper. Even if (and that's a large if) all of these contributed equally to the results in the paper, some obviously did more than others to prepare the ground for that study.

Re: Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

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Post by seydor »

DevX101 wrote: post #24

Here's a direct quote from the Alphafold paper: "These authors contributed equally: John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, Russ Bates, Augustin Žídek, Anna Potapenko, Alex Bridgland, Clemens Meyer, Simon A. A. Kohl, Andrew J. Ballard, Andrew Cowie, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Rishub Jain, Demis Hassabis"

They didnt give the award to the paper

Re: Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

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Post by dangsux »

DevX101 wrote: post #24

Here's a direct quote from the Alphafold paper: "These authors contributed equally: John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, Russ Bates, Augustin Žídek, Anna Potapenko, Alex Bridgland, Clemens Meyer, Simon A. A. Kohl, Andrew J. Ballard, Andrew Cowie, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Rishub Jain, Demis Hassabis"

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