Some Recent Human-Computer Discoveries in Science and What Accounts for Them

My collaborators and I have recently reported in domain science journals several human-computer discoveries in biology, chemistry, and physics. My conclusion is that each finding involves a new representation of the scientific task: The problem spaces searched were unlike previous task problem spaces. Such new representations need not be wholly new to the history of science; rather, they can draw on useful representational pieces from elsewhere in natural or computer science. My analysis also suggests a broader potential role for (AI) computer scientists in the practice of natural science.