Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
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 ). Ed had started with computers in 1956—as part of one of the very first cohorts of programmers. It wasn’t a methodology I think Ed ever really understood—or cared about. An elaborate description of a wild idea.
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