Mathematics and computing articles within Nature

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  • World View |

    Alan Turing is famous for many reasons. Andrew Hodges delves into why Turing's achievements took so long to be recognized.

    • Andrew Hodges

  • Perspective |

    Scientific reproducibility now very often depends on the computational method being available to duplicate, so here it is argued that all source code should be freely available.

    • Darrel C. Ince
    • , Leslie Hatton
    •  & John Graham-Cumming

  • News Feature |

    Lab-management software and electronic notebooks are here — and this time, it's more than just talk.

    • Jim Giles

  • Comment |

    As models of authorship and collaboration change in the digital age, we must rely on trust to filter the products of research, says Jerome Ravetz.

    • Jerome Ravetz

  • Letter |

    Affinity tagging, mass spectroscopy and a tailor-made scoring system are used to identify 497 high-confidence interactions between human proteins and human immunodeficiency virus proteins.

    • Stefanie Jäger
    • , Peter Cimermancic
    •  & Nevan J. Krogan

  • Books & Arts |

    Stefan Michalowski and Georgia Smith find that a mix of unexplained equations and thunderclaps doesn't add up.

    • Stefan Michalowski
    •  & Georgia Smith

  • Comment |

    Social media hold a treasure trove of information. But the secretive methods of ethics review boards are hindering their analysis, says Alexander Halavais.

    • Alexander Halavais

  • Obituary |

    The exacting visionary who put the personal into computing.

    • Tim O'Reilly

  • Books & Arts |

    Gillian Beer chronicles the passage of time in its many manifestations through Lewis Carroll's enduring classics.

    • Gillian Beer

  • News & Views |

    Diamond-based quantum computers could potentially operate at room temperature with optical interfacing, but their construction is challenging. Silicon carbide, used widely in electronics, may provide a solution. See Letter p.84

    • Andrew Dzurak

  • Books & Arts |

    Mathematician Persi Diaconis of Stanford University in California ran away from home in his teens to perform card tricks. As he publishes a book on the mathematics of magic, co-authored with juggler and fellow mathematician Ron Graham, he explains what makes a good trick.

    • Jascha Hoffman

  • Feature |

    Internet-based degree programmes are gaining acceptance, but doubts remain about their suitability for graduate science.

    • Sarah Kellogg

  • Editorial |

    Steve Jobs and Apple revolutionized the way scientists render their work.

  • Books & Arts |

    As the new director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Joichi Ito brings his knowledge of Internet start-ups — including Flickr, Twitter and licence provider Creative Commons — to the lab that developed the ideas behind the game Guitar Hero and Amazon Kindle's E-Ink technology. Ito talks about the value of playfulness and freedom in scientific discovery.

    • Jascha Hoffman

  • News & Views |

    Quantum computing architectures based on hybrid systems require strong coupling and information exchange between their constituent elements. These two features have been achieved in one such hybrid setting. See Letter p.221

    • Irinel Chiorescu

  • Feature |

    Internet-based tools and videos are making it easier to perfect lab techniques and tasks. But they augment, rather than replace, conventional guidance in person.

    • Katharine Sanderson

  • Editorial |

    Europe's shocking statistics on neurological and mental disorders demand a shift in priorities.

  • Books & Arts |

    Biology is too complex to be unified by mathematics, finds Marc Feldman.

    • Marc Feldman

  • News & Views |

    Nanoscale devices have now been made that mimic biological connections in the brain by responding to the relative timing of signals. This achievement might lead to the construction of artificial neural networks for computing applications.

    • Dmitri B. Strukov

  • News |

    The creator of a marketplace for scientific research explains how it could transform the enterprise.

    • Zoë Corbyn

  • Comment |

    Paul Ginsparg, founder of the preprint server, reflects on two decades of sharing results rapidly online — and on the future of scholarly communication.

    • Paul Ginsparg

  • Comment |

    On the twentieth anniversary of the World Wide Web's public release, Oren Etzioni calls on researchers to think outside the keyword box and improve Internet trawling.

    • Oren Etzioni

  • Books & Arts |

    Andrew Robinson enjoys a history of a controversial probability tool — Bayes' theorem.

    • Andrew Robinson

  • News |

    The latest revision of fundamental quantities bodes well for the proposed overhaul of the international system of units.

    • Eugenie Samuel Reich

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