Futurum

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Dr Narges Armanfard, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, has established iSMART Lab to develop new healthcare technologies. iSMART Innovations “The projects we work on aim to transform the monitoring and management of health conditions,” says Narges.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While computers can outperform humans in many domains, including arithmetic, object recognition and some aspects of language processing, no machine yet exists that can match human performance in all these domains. Understanding how the human brain functions so efficiently and flexibly remains one of the greatest mysteries of science.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

So what about science? But that certainly doesn’t mean AI can’t importantly help the progress of science. But what I want to do here is to discuss what amount to deeper questions about AI in science. Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There had been precursors of steam engines even in antiquity, but it was only in 1712 that the first practical steam engine was developed.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was someone who wanted to independently figure things out for himself, and delighted in presenting his often somewhat-outlandish conclusions—whether about technology, science, business or the world—with dramatic showman-like panache. I wrote about this in one chapter of my 2002 book A New Kind of Science. But it is computational.

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 67

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. How is it made?

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Computer Mathematics Science Sciences 55

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

From projects that get completed within months of their conception, to projects that rely on years (and sometimes even decades) of systematic development. And in the past five years we’ve also been able to open up our core design process to the world— regularly livestreaming what we’re doing in a uniquely open way.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Statistical Mechanics and Simple Programs Back in 1973 I never really managed to do much science on the very first computer I used. But by late 1979 I had basically outgrown the software systems that existed, and within weeks of getting my PhD I embarked on the project of building my own computational system.

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