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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

I myself have been using computers and computation to discover things in science for more than four decades now. Beyond the “Exact Sciences” In areas like the physical sciences we’re used to the idea of being able to develop broad theories that can do things like make quantitative predictions. So might AI change that?

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

Stephen Wolfram

On a flight back from the Caribbean he sat next to a certain Joyce Wheatley who came from a prominent family in the British Virgin Islands and had just graduated with a BS in economics and finance from Bentley College (now Bentley University) in Waltham, MA. Wolfram Alpha and its connections to Siri, are examples.