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Nature’s 10

Ten people who mattered this year.
  1. Heidi Ledford
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This design speaks to the increasingly important role of artificial intelligence in science and technology. The image was created using a machine-learning algorithm designed to solve the travelling salesman problem, which asks for the optimum path between a given set of points. Thus, the ‘10’ is drawn as a single line. Image by Martin Krzywinski

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Nature 552, 315-324 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-07763-y

About Nature’s 10

Nature’s 10 is the journal’s annual list of ten people who mattered in science this year. Their role in science may have had a significant impact on the world, or their position in the world may have had an important impact on science. In ten short profiles we reveal the human stories behind some of the year’s most important discoveries and events.

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