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A Computer Program Has Ranked the Most Influential Brain Scientists of the Modern Era (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes from a report via Science Magazine: A computer program has parsed the content of 2.5 million neuroscience articles, mapped all of the citations between them, and calculated a score of each author's influence on the rest to determine the most influential brain scientists of the modern era. The program, called Semantic Scholar, is an online tool built at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, Washington. It hopes to expand to all of the biomedical literature next year, over 20 million papers. The program sees much more than the typical academic search engine, says the project leader. "We are using machine learning, natural language processing, and [machine] vision to begin to delve into the semantics."
Isn't this literally what pagerank has been invented for?
This sounds more like some advertisement for some AI corporation than something actually relevant.
He's not on the list, but I've always been a fan Vilanur Ramachandran. This is a long but nice lecture on how we appreciate art (and other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...