And they work by repeatedly applying these rules, and often generating complex patterns — that we now know can be used as the basis for all sorts of interesting technology. He and his wife have four children and live in Concord, Massachusetts. Building on his work from the mid-1980s, and now with Mathematica as a tool, Wolfram made a rapid succession of major new discoveries. I’m so sad this evening—as millions are—to hear of Steve Jobs’s death. Soren Kierkegaard said “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” What mysterious aspect of life perplexed you as a 20–30 year old, but makes perfect sense to you today? Well, it went back and forth for a while. Once you've done that, you realize, 'This is fun, I might as well do more of this.'. I had the privilege to work with Tim Berners-Lee developing the World Wide Web technology on one of these NeXT cubes bought by CERN. This has the benefit of leaving nothing to chance; if something goes wrong in the replication process, no harm has been done. But can you teach it the intangibles? I don’t now remember the details of our first meeting, but at the end of it, Steve gave me his business card, which tonight I found duly still sitting in my files: Over the months after our first meeting, I had all sorts of interactions with Steve about Mathematica. I think Mathematica may hold the distinction of having been the only major software system available at launch on every single computer that Steve Jobs created since 1988. One of the possibilities is you have a course and you tack it onto all the many things that people are being taught today. But here’s my big hobby question: what about our physical universe? He explained that he’d just met the woman he was seeing a few days earlier, and was very nervous about his date. It turned out, Stephen had written about the film: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2018/04/learning-about-the-future-from-2001-a-space-odyssey-fifty-years-later/. Actually, it wasn’t yet called Mathematica then, and one of the big topics of discussion was what it should be called. He was certainly always a great supporter. It’s again a little like what happens with fluids. After all, like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, even from their shape we recognize the aliens’ spaceships as artifacts. Since I run UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination’s The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast, I thought it fitting to begin the discussion by asking about his thoughts on science fiction and especially Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 A Space Odyssey. Wolfram’s early scientific work was mainly in high-energy physics, quantum field theory and cosmology, and included several now-classic results. We concluded the conversation by discussing ‘light’ topics such as the meaning of life and his legacy…, This was really fun an rewarding for me. Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He’s also built a knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha that you have used in Siri, Alexa, Bing, or DuckDuckGo.” Listen to the interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Here are the secrets that help him power through his workdays. In my life, I have had the good fortune to interact with all sorts of talented people. “Actually, there’s even more than that. It’s kind of liberating. Stephen, you are a good and true friend of Steve Jobs. From Book “In terms of scale, making a movie like Arrival is a project of about the same size as releasing a major new version of the Wolfram Language. Long ago it became my personal all-time favorite science discovery, and over the years it’s changed my whole worldview and led me to all sorts of science, technology, philosophy and more. You are lucky to have had him as a true friend. You’ll get to find out with this episode’s interview of Remarkable People with Stephen Wolfram. I have always enjoyed his writings and candor, even when I often find some of his ideas hard to grasp. Scientism and the Fraud of Economic Incantations. Stephen Wolfram: My favorite example is this thing called Rule 30, which is a thing that operates on a row of black and white cells and at every step it just says make the color of a cell be some fixed rule based on the color of that cell on the step before and the color of its … We segued from there to the film Arrival and his thoughts on language as an algorithm. The Steve Jobs—so confident as a businessman and technologist—had melted away, and he was asking me—hardly a noted known authority on such things—about his date. It is quite interesting story^^, Im so sorry about Mr.Jobs. Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Wolfram is a sought-after advisor, mentor and speaker in corporate, entrepreneurial and educational settings. I have met Stephen only once, but his breadth of knowledge blew my mind.

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