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

Stephen Wolfram

And when we finally made the breakthrough that led in 2020 to our Physics Project it made me a little sad that I didn’t even try to explain it to Ed. A few times over the years I had made efforts to ask Ed for systematic historical accounts—and in 2014 I even recorded many hours of oral history with him. But it is computational.