Stephen Wolfram
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Victorians called it "protoplasm". But what really is "living matter"? And can we make a foundational theory of such a microscopically "bulk orchestrated" form of matter? Seems like maybe we can ...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Victorians called it "protoplasm". But what really is "living matter"? And can we make a foundational theory of such a microscopically "bulk orchestrated" form of matter? Seems like maybe we can ...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/11/what...
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Congratulations to our 2025 Wolfram Innovator Award winners! Such an interesting group doing such interesting and important things!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Congratulations to our 2025 Wolfram Innovator Award winners! Such an interesting group doing such interesting and important things!
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Yes, we have a rich history. But as I prepare (for the 37th time!) for my keynote tomorrow at our annual Wolfram Technology Conference I'm most excited to talk about what's next. Join me live at 1 pm ET www.youtube.com/Wolfram_Rese...
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Yes, we have a rich history. But as I prepare (for the 37th time!) for my keynote tomorrow at our annual Wolfram Technology Conference I'm most excited to talk about what's next. Join me live at 1 pm ET www.youtube.com/Wolfram_Rese...
Dropped in at Bletchley Park ... and at the National Museum of Computing met an old friend: an Elliott 903---the first kind of computer I used (in 1972). I think I've aged better...
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Dropped in at Bletchley Park ... and at the National Museum of Computing met an old friend: an Elliott 903---the first kind of computer I used (in 1972). I think I've aged better...
If you do functional programming (like in Wolfram Language) you've probably used lots of pure functions, or lambdas. But what are lambdas like in the wild? Things I'm doing in CS, bio and ML converged to make me curious to find out...
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The Ruliology of Lambdas
Stephen Wolfram explains the rich ruliology of lambdas, made particularly significant by their connection to practical computing. Covers basic computations to undecidability to multiway graphs and evaluation strategies.
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September 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you do functional programming (like in Wolfram Language) you've probably used lots of pure functions, or lambdas. But what are lambdas like in the wild? Things I'm doing in CS, bio and ML converged to make me curious to find out...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/09/the-...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/09/the-...
Trying to understand yet another strange collection of creatures in the computational universe....
September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trying to understand yet another strange collection of creatures in the computational universe....
I've been getting mail with unsolicited "theories of physics" for 50 (!) years.
What can one do with all that enthusiasm and energy? Maybe now I have an idea...
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What can one do with all that enthusiasm and energy? Maybe now I have an idea...
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“I Have a Theory Too”: The Challenge and Opportunity of Avocational Science
Stephen Wolfram encourages amateur scientists to channel their passion, truly learn the subject that interests them and then systematically explore the computational universe using ruliology.
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August 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I've been getting mail with unsolicited "theories of physics" for 50 (!) years.
What can one do with all that enthusiasm and energy? Maybe now I have an idea...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/08/i-ha...
What can one do with all that enthusiasm and energy? Maybe now I have an idea...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/08/i-ha...
Launching Version 14.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica. It's a version with a particularly large number of very long-awaited features (including ones planned for 38(!) years) ... that we finally figured out how to deliver! 🎁
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August 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Launching Version 14.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica. It's a version with a particularly large number of very long-awaited features (including ones planned for 38(!) years) ... that we finally figured out how to deliver! 🎁
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Nice pictures I happened to just get and thought I should share...
July 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nice pictures I happened to just get and thought I should share...
Wow! Look at what high school students just did in 2 weeks #WithWolfram at the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program. (And, yes, in "extreme professoring mode" I tried to get to know all 75 students and suggest projects that would be great fits for each of them...)
July 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Wow! Look at what high school students just did in 2 weeks #WithWolfram at the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program. (And, yes, in "extreme professoring mode" I tried to get to know all 75 students and suggest projects that would be great fits for each of them...)
Just finished three exciting weeks of our (23rd!) annual Wolfram Summer School ... with lots of interesting projects done ...
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July 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Just finished three exciting weeks of our (23rd!) annual Wolfram Summer School ... with lots of interesting projects done ...
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I've often wondered what it'd be like if we had bigger brains. It's not easy to imagine what minds beyond ours might be like ... but I just gave it a try ...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've often wondered what it'd be like if we had bigger brains. It's not easy to imagine what minds beyond ours might be like ... but I just gave it a try ...
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writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/05/what...
Today is the birthday of A New Kind of Science. What a huge project that was (10+ years, etc.)!
I'm still amazed it actually got done.
At the 20th anniversary I told some of the behind-the-scenes story...
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I'm still amazed it actually got done.
At the 20th anniversary I told some of the behind-the-scenes story...
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May 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today is the birthday of A New Kind of Science. What a huge project that was (10+ years, etc.)!
I'm still amazed it actually got done.
At the 20th anniversary I told some of the behind-the-scenes story...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/05/the-...
I'm still amazed it actually got done.
At the 20th anniversary I told some of the behind-the-scenes story...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/05/the-...
From the point of view of science I've never been too excited about the Game of Life. But now I realize that what's really exciting about it is what it tells us about what we can call metaengineering...
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March 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
From the point of view of science I've never been too excited about the Game of Life. But now I realize that what's really exciting about it is what it tells us about what we can call metaengineering...
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writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/03/what...
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#PiDay served with a slice of off the cuff history from @stephenwolfram.bsky.social
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March 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#PiDay served with a slice of off the cuff history from @stephenwolfram.bsky.social
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I'm excited to share yet another (unexpected) application of my recent science: a computational formalization for foundations of medicine. (Why is medicine hard? Are there a finite number of diseases? ...)
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Towards a Computational Formalization for Foundations of Medicine
Stephen Wolfram takes the first steps in developing a medical metamodel framework for studying and formalizing the abstract foundations of medicine.
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February 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm excited to share yet another (unexpected) application of my recent science: a computational formalization for foundations of medicine. (Why is medicine hard? Are there a finite number of diseases? ...)
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/02/towa...
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A quarter century ago this minute ... a century-old problem was solved when out of my Mathematica program popped the shortest possible axiom system for logic ... though to this day nobody understands the computer-generated proof...
January 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A quarter century ago this minute ... a century-old problem was solved when out of my Mathematica program popped the shortest possible axiom system for logic ... though to this day nobody understands the computer-generated proof...
Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: big data meets computation & AI...
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January 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: big data meets computation & AI...
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My father would have been 100 years old today ... which really helps humanize for me what a century means...
January 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My father would have been 100 years old today ... which really helps humanize for me what a century means...
Just wrapped this year's Wolfram Science Winter School. Lots of ruliological intuition building, mixed with mathematical physics and some computational philosophy...
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education.wolfram.com/programs/
January 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just wrapped this year's Wolfram Science Winter School. Lots of ruliological intuition building, mixed with mathematical physics and some computational philosophy...
education.wolfram.com/programs/
education.wolfram.com/programs/
Formalized math: meet computational irreducibility.
A simple (if surprising) theorem.
An automated proof nobody seems able to understand.
A tale of adventure in the wilds of metamathematical space...
#MathSky
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A simple (if surprising) theorem.
An automated proof nobody seems able to understand.
A tale of adventure in the wilds of metamathematical space...
#MathSky
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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
Stephen Wolfram discusses understanding proofs discovered using automated theorem proving. Based on Wolfram’s proof of the simplest axioms of logic of Boolean algebra.
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January 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Formalized math: meet computational irreducibility.
A simple (if surprising) theorem.
An automated proof nobody seems able to understand.
A tale of adventure in the wilds of metamathematical space...
#MathSky
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/who-...
A simple (if surprising) theorem.
An automated proof nobody seems able to understand.
A tale of adventure in the wilds of metamathematical space...
#MathSky
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/who-...
An unexpected little ruliological discovery just made live a few minutes ago during my inaugural "Q&A for Scientists" livestream...
youtu.be/9_t1ysElDL8
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December 13, 2024 at 10:14 PM
An unexpected little ruliological discovery just made live a few minutes ago during my inaugural "Q&A for Scientists" livestream...
youtu.be/9_t1ysElDL8
youtu.be/9_t1ysElDL8
Useful to the point of being revolutionary: introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant!
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December 9, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Useful to the point of being revolutionary: introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant!
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Biological evolution is a fundamentally computational phenomenon! Just posted lots of new results (and surprises) from my minimal model of adaptive evolution...
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December 5, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Biological evolution is a fundamentally computational phenomenon! Just posted lots of new results (and surprises) from my minimal model of adaptive evolution...
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writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/foun...
Born 65 years ago this minute. Happy to say the last five years have been my all-time most productive (so far)... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five...
August 29, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Born 65 years ago this minute. Happy to say the last five years have been my all-time most productive (so far)... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five...