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Founded in 2014, the Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area.
Senior Fellows are distinguished scientists based in New York City. Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for three years to conduct independent research at an institution of higher learning in New York City, with no teaching obligations.
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Naor, a Princeton University professor of mathematics and director of the Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry, receives the prize in recognition of his pioneering achievements at the interface of the geometry of Banach spaces, the structure of metric spaces and algorithms.
"Superintelligence” is a flawed concept and shouldn’t inform our policy decisions, argues Melanie Mitchell, a professor of computer science at Portland State University.
An experiment that partially revived slaughterhouse pig brains raises questions about the precise end point of life, writes neuroscientist Christof Koch.
Debate highlights broader concerns about tools that use the results of direct-to-consumer genetic testing.
