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Automating scientific discovery

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Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 5
          May 2012
          112 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2160718
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