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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

“That’s not a question for scientists to answer on their own,” said Jason A. Delborne, a social scientist at North Carolina State University and a member of the N.A.S. gene drive committee.

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

N.A.S. members are manning the intellectual barricades almost everywhere these days.

From Time Magazine Archive

An N.A.S. review panel and the committee agreed, however, to water down that observation.

From Time Magazine Archive

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