Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For me, my work in the early 1980s was a foundation for the whole tower of science and technology that I’ve spent my life since then building, most recently culminating in our Wolfram Physics Project and what in just the past few weeks I’ve called the multicomputational paradigm. In some ways, ruliology is like natural science.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But while this might be a convenient setup for biology, it’s not at all clear that it’s even close to the best way to achieve the functionality we need. But our modern technological world has been built on engineering that makes use of at least mathematical computations—and increasingly also more general computations.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Statistical Mechanics and Simple Programs Back in 1973 I never really managed to do much science on the very first computer I used. But by 1976 I had access to much bigger and faster computers (as well as to the ARPANET—forerunner of the internet). I’m not sure when I first became aware of cryptography.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 25, 2021

Based on a talk at Numerous Numerosity: An interdisciplinary meeting on the notions of cardinality, ordinality and arithmetic across the sciences. Surely, one might think, to have all that technology they must have the idea of numbers. To us numbers seem so natural—and “obvious”—that it’s hard to imagine everyone wouldn’t have them.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

But beginning a little more than a century ago there emerged the idea that one could build mathematics purely from formal axioms, without necessarily any reference to what is accessible to sensory experience. And in a way our Physics Project begins from a similar place. 3 | The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Projects like 15th Street Farm NEP can help towards tackling food security by providing knowledge, skills and agency to young people so that they will have a role in developing a food system where nutritionally adequate, safe and socially acceptable food is available and accessible. What are your proudest career achievements so far?

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