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N.A.S.

American  
Or NAS

abbreviation

  1. National Academy of Sciences.

  2. naval air station.


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Geordie Williamson, of the University of Sydney and a DeepMind collaborator, spoke at the N.A.S. gathering and encouraged mathematicians and computer scientists to be more involved in such conversations.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023

“I would buy into that,” said James P. Collins, an evolutionary ecologist at Arizona State University and co-chairman of the N.A.S. committee on gene drives.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2017

The resulting fire, the N.A.S. and anti-nuclear watchdogs have cautioned, could send across Cape Cod and northern New England many times the amount of radioactive cesium-137 released in the Chernobyl disaster.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2016

That is not the way things went at the N.A.S. last month, however.

From Time Magazine Archive

In response to the N.A.S. report, the White House may ask for at least part of a $50 million investigation of nuclear winter that is under consideration.

From Time Magazine Archive

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