Who is Stephen Wolfram?

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You know who Stephen Wolfram is, right? Whether you love him or, you know, don’t love him, there’s no denying that Stephen Wolfram has founded a host of fascinating projects... most of them named Wolfram-something-or-other. What are all these Wolfram-branded projects? Who is Stephen Wolfram? — Some of the things Stephen Wolfram created: • 1987 Wolfram Research https://www.wolfram.com/company/ • 1988 Mathematica https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/ • 2009 Wolfram Alpha https://www.wolframalpha.com/ • 2014 Wolfram Language https://www.wolfram.com/language/ • 2020 Wolfram Physics https://www.wolframphysics.org/ not to mention: • Wolfram Cloud https://www.wolframcloud.com/ • Wolfram One https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-one/ • Wolfram Notebooks https://www.wolfram.com/notebooks/ • Wolfram Player https://www.wolfram.com/player/ • Wolfram Script https://www.wolfram.com/wolframscript/ • Wolfram Engine https://www.wolfram.com/engine/ • Wolfram Foundation https://www.wolframfoundation.org/ More about Stephen Wolfram: • Stephen Wolfram’s web site https://www.stephenwolfram.com/ • Timeline https://www.stephenwolfram.com/scrapbook/timeline/ Stephen Wolfram’s education: • University of Oxford https://www.ox.ac.uk/ • California Institute of Technology https://www.caltech.edu/about Some of Stephen Wolfram’s special subjects: • particle physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics • cellular automata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton Some of Stephen Wolfram’s books: • A New Kind Of Science https://lasttheory.com/book/a-new-kind-of-science-by-stephen-wolfram • A project to find the Fundamental Theory of Physics https://lasttheory.com/book/a-project-to-find-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-by-stephen-wolfram Other people involved in the Wolfram Physics Project: • Jonathan Gorard https://www.wolframphysics.org/people/jonathan-gorard/ • Max Piskunov https://www.wolframphysics.org/people/max-piskunov/ Reference: • Wolfram Research now has over 800 employees https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/103630-96#overview Image: • Animation. 1200 iterations of the ‘Rule 110’ Automata https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animation%2E_1200_iterations_of_the_%27Rule_110%27_Automata.gif by Mr. Heretic licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en Some of my own projects: • things made thinkable https://www.thingsmadethinkable.com/ – visualization of nuclides https://www.thingsmadethinkable.com/item/nuclides.php – tap the binding energy button bottom right to show the binding energy per nucleon • Open Web Mind https://www.openwebmind.com/ – subscribe to the newsletter https://www.openwebmind.com/newsletter/ or YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@openwebmind for more on shared human intelligence — The Last Theory https://lasttheory.com/ is hosted by Mark Jeffery https://markjeffery.com/ founder of Open Web Mind https://www.openwebmind.com/ Prefer to listen to the audio? Search for The Last Theory in your podcast player, or listen at https://lasttheory.com/podcast/056-who-is-stephen-wolfram The full article is at https://lasttheory.com/article/who-is-stephen-wolfram Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.