Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. And he says “There’s a problem.
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