Astrometry: Rise of the machines

Rise of the Machines

Until recently, sequencing the entire genome of an organism was a major endeavor. New technologies are transforming this task into routine practice and launching a new assault on wholegenome sequencing. It is more than 30 years since Sir Fred Sanger and colleagues published their method for sequencing DNA [1]. This Nobel Prize–winning work formed the basis of the vast majority of subsequent seq...

Rise of the Machines

On the 50th anniversary of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies I reflect on the rise of the field of Machine Learning and what it means for Statistics. Machine Learning offers a plethora of new research areas, new applications areas and new colleagues to work with. Our students now compete with Machine Learning students for jobs. I am optimistic that visionary Statistics depart...

Rise of the Molecular Machines

“When we get to the very, very small world ... we have a lot of new things that would happen that represent completely new opportunities for design ... At the atomic level we have new kinds of forces and new kinds of possibilities, new kinds of effects. The problem of manufacture and reproduction of materials will be quite different ... inspired by biological phenomena in which chemical forces ...

Controlling Motion at the Nanoscale: Rise of the Molecular Machines.

As our understanding and control of intra- and intermolecular interactions evolve, ever more complex molecular systems are synthesized and assembled that are capable of performing work or completing sophisticated tasks at the molecular scale. Commonly referred to as molecular machines, these dynamic systems comprise an astonishingly diverse class of motifs and are designed to respond to a pleth...

Ultrasound in neurolymphomatosis: The rise of the machines.