Catalyzing Change in Bringing Biology to Life

Diversity in chemistry: catalyzing change.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the underrepresentation of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans in the scientific workforce is becoming a national crisis. In the past decade, reports by the American Association for the Advancement of Science1, the US National Science Board2 and the US National Science Foundation3 have pointed out that our country’s continued success in scienc...

Dna Computers to Life Bringing

Bringing Autonomic Services To Life

LUCIANO BARESI Politecnico di Milano ROBERTO CASCELLA Università Degli Studi di Trento PETER DEUSSEN Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems ANTONIO DI FERDINANDO AND RICARDO LENT Imperial College London SANDRA HASELOFF AND NERMIN BRGULJA Universität Kassel ANTONIO MANZALINI AND CORRADO MOISO Telecom Italia FABRICE SAFFRE British Telecommunications and FRANCO ZAMBONELLI Università d...

Bringing Evo Devo to Life

T he essential path of adaptive evolution is that genetic variation among individuals is translated by the process of development into phenotypic variability, which is then screened by natural selection for any design changes that enhance survival and reproductive success. In Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean Carroll shows how the central black box of development that maps phenotypes onto geno...

Bringing Active Learning to Life

Active learning has been applied to different NLP tasks, with the aim of limiting the amount of time and cost for human annotation. Most studies on active learning have only simulated the annotation scenario, using prelabelled gold standard data. We present the first active learning experiment for Word Sense Disambiguation with human annotators in a realistic environment, using fine-grained sen...