Summary AI techniques have led to spectacular advances in many different fields, such as image recognition, language processing, and chess. In the scientific context, the most recent example is the success of the AI system "AlphaFold" in predicting the folded structure of proteins based on their amino acid sequence. In medicine, AI-based methods promise to …
Deborah Gordon is Professor of Biology at University of Stanford (USA). Deborah Gordon is a world-leading specialist of ant colonies and collective behaviors. With her group, she uses ant colonies to investigate systems that operate without central control, and explore analogies with other systems, such as the internet, the immune system, and the brain. She …
On Dec 14th at 5pm (French time, GMT+1), we will hear Fred Tauber (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Zoltan Kohn Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Boston University) via Zoom (contact Thomas Pradeu to get the link). He will present his latest book, The Triumph of Uncertainty: Science and Self in the Postmodern Age (Central European University Press, …