Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

And when the train came to Los Angeles, the young Ed Fredkin decided he had to be the first person to see it : The Los Angeles Times published his account of his adventure—a younger but “quintessentially Ed” story: Ed’s record in high school was at best spotty. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere. One is so-called Böhm trees.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere. One is so-called Böhm trees.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a somewhat different direction, we’ve expanded our Wolfram Summer School to add a Wolfram Winter School , and we’ve greatly expanded our our Wolfram High School Summer Research Program , adding year-round programs , middle-school programs , etc.—including And then there’s livestreaming. is PositionSmallest.

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