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

Stephen Wolfram

Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. A long and colorful story. But Ed wasn’t interested.