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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

Futurum

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. FIELDS OF RESEARCH: American Studies, Criminology, Cultural Studies. FUNDER: Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

In the mid-1990s, researching history for my book A New Kind of Science , (as I’ll discuss below) I had a detailed email exchange and long phone conversation with Ed about this. Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. As he told it : I never pressed any issue that would sort of give me credit, okay?

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. But when it comes to mathematical research, and the frontiers of mathematics, one doesn’t immediately expect any such constraint. So might AI change that?

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