A Nobel Prize for Artificial Intelligence for Predicting Protein Structure – A Memories of a Times Times ‘Two Years Later’

If there was a prize for computer science, it would be appropriate for our work, said the winner in an interview after the award. “But there isn’t one.” When he was acknowledged by the Times, he added that it was also a hint.

The scientific applications for AlphaFold2 include helping researchers to understand antibiotic resistance and develop plastic degrading enzymes, according to the Nobel committee. “Work that once took years now takes just a few minutes thanks to this year’s chemistry laureates,” the Nobel committee said on X.

One of the winners of this year’s chemistry prize, Baker has long been one of the leaders in the use of artificial intelligence for prediction of structure. He had been laboring away for decades at the problem, making incremental gains, recognizing that the well-defined problem and format of protein structure made it a useful test bed for AI algorithms. The project that was awarded the prize, AlphaFold2, was not the same project as the one that Baker had published hundreds of papers in.

Nominated for an Emerging Research Prize at a Linear Collider and a Phone Calling Machine (with an Appearance in Swedish)

She isn’t sure what the decision this week is about. But she and others are sure that it’ll make a meaningful difference to the future of research.

After his wife started to receive calls from a Swedish phone number on her computer screen, it became clear that she had not been aware that she had been nominated for a prestigious award.