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

Stephen Wolfram

In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. In all the years I knew Ed, I’m not sure he ever really listened to anything I said (though he did use tools I built ). He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. A long and colorful story.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Developing new kinds of computational diagrams. And painstakingly laying out page after page of what on May 14, 2002, would be published as A New Kind of Science. I’ve written before (even in the book itself ) about the intellectual journey involved in the creation of A New Kind of Science. Figuring out more and more science.

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