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Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 5, 2024
But the computer let me discover just by systematic enumeration the 2-state, 3-color machine that in 2007 was proved universal (and, yes, it’s the simplest possible universal Turing machine). In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be. Let’s look at a very simple case.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
. “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. It didn’t really come to light until he was at BBN, but while at Lincoln Lab Ed had made what would eventually become his first lasting contribution to computer science. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra.
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