Futurum

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and social sciences with a playful attitude. My proudest career achievement has been obtaining a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission. My PhD in computational and neural systems was a formational time.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And one of the great feelings of power has been that even in fields—like the social sciences—where there haven’t really been much more than “verbal” models before, it’s now appeared possible to get models that at least seem much more “scientific”. In A New Kind of Science I cataloged and studied minimal kinds of models of many types.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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Computer Biology Mathematics Economics 105

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

The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities. What are your proudest career achievements so far? Being able to help people to become their better selves through education.

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