Author Archives: Edward R Dougherty

Edward Dougherty is distinguished professor of engineering at Texas A&M University.
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Is artificial intelligence deserving of all the hype?

by Edward R Dougherty

Artificial intelligence is moving into all areas of engineering, science, business and industry; indeed, AI is now the dominant approach, pushing others to the background. Recently, DeepMind, owned by Google, demonstrated an algorithm called AlphaFold to predict the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino-acid sequence. This is a fundamental problems in biology. Laboratory methods are […]