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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

Extract from the pilot script for Emerald Point N.A.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some scientists have disagreed with a few of the more extreme predictions of this hypothesis, which has been given its first official stamp of credibility by the 193-page N.A.S. report.

From Time Magazine Archive