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Face-to-face interactions are critical for the cross-fertilisation of ideas. Yet, the share of geographically distributed teams in scientific research has steadily risen since the 1960s and accelerated with the ICT revolution of the 1990s. This column explores how the rise of remote collaboration has shaped disruptive discoveries in science between 1961 and 2020. Remote

By Bella Ratmelia, Librarian, Data Services On 3 January 2022, OpenAlex announced their official launch on Twitter. This also includes the launch of their API and its documentation.  

The opening scene of a brief online documentary by the state-run China Global Television Network shows jaywalkers in Shenzhen getting captured on video, identified and then shamed publicly in real time. The report is supposed to highlight China’s prowess in artificial intelligence (AI), yet it reveals a lesser-known truth: China’s AI is not so much a tool of world domination as a narrowly deployed means of domestic control. On paper, the US and China appear neck and neck in AI development. ...

China’s AI isn’t so much a tool of world domination as a narrowly deployed means of domestic control.

On paper, the US and China appear neck and neck in artificial intelligence. China leads in the share of journal citations — helped by the fact that it also publishes more — while the US is far ahead in the more qualitative metric of cited conference papers, according to a recent report compiled by Stanford University.

A "tell-all" account of why improving our academic search engine was not as simple as we had hoped, including the following problems and their solutions: dirty data, feature engineering, proper evaluation, posthoc correction.