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THIS NO.4 – PROJECT DEBATER

Machine learning technology with less human supervision had been pushed to the spotlight after Google’s AlphaGo Zero outplayed both top human players and other AI programs in the board game Go. This year IBM surprised us with another smart machine.

Monday, June 18th 2018, IBM unveiled its Project Debater – the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The technique used  in developing Project Debater includes numerous cutting-edge machine learning and data mining algorithms. Let’s follow Thisis to have a look at some of the basics about machine learning and Project Debater.

THIS NO.2 – REMEMBERING STEPHEN HAWKING

One of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century, Prof. Stephen Hawking, has passed away peacefully at his home in Cambridge home in March 14th, 2018. He is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge as well as a great science communicator. He is the author of the international bestseller popular science book The Brief History of Time and has appeared in many movies and TV series, including The Big Bang Theory. In THIS NO.2 we invite you to review three of Prof. Hawking’s great contributions to science: The property of the black hole, The quantum origin of the universe and Time traveling with Thisis. Enjoy!

Let’s Talk About Heat Shock Proteins (While Waiting for the Summer)

Do you sometimes wonder why scientists bother to study the development of fruit flies? Or why they care about how the cave fish has lost its eyes? Unfortunately, the relevance of research is not always apparent from the beginning. Sometimes it needs years, or even decades to understand the significance of certain findings! Here I want to tell the story of heat shock proteins – one out of many examples of how a study initially dismissed as irrelevant turned out to be a groundbreaking finding.

THIS NO.1 – COLD SNAP A.K.A SANTA’S REVENGE

The idea of ‘The Hot Important Science (THIS)’ comic strips was born in March 2018, Helsinki, Finland during an intensive brain storming session between a researcher and a designing student. THIS’s mission is to bring you topically scientific stories, discoveries etc. every month in an easy-to-read format. We do not want to tell you that we spent a whole month on creating the first post because we want you to be objective about THIS. But we do hope you enjoy reading them! Thank you and see you the next month!