The British scientist and polymath Stephen Wolfram has always had big ambitions. He wrote four book-length works on physics by age 14. He earned a Ph.D. in particle physics from Cal Tech by age 20. By ...

Stephen Wolfram doesn’t blog much, but when he does he makes it count. On November 13, 2013, Wolfram sat down at his Mac and promised that the new computer language he created would be his “most ...

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Stephen Wolfram was in his Caltech office more than 20 years ago, working late on an autumn evening, when he saw something on his computer screen that shocked and confused him. The 21-year-old ...

“THERE is no dramatic distinction between the processes of the weather and the workings of the human brain,” says Stephen Wolfram, a physicist and the founder of Wolfram Research, a software company. ...

Physics prodigy turned software entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram can fairly claim to have revolutionized the math software niche with the 1988 launch of Mathematica, and that must have given him a taste ...

Stephen Wolfram has had the sort of career that The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper might identify with: PhD in particle physics at 20, youngest-ever MacArthur Fellow at 21. At 26, Wikipedia tells us ...

It is not always that you meet someone who has an erdos number of 2, a h-index of 58 and has Richard Feynman as a member of his PhD thesis committee, which he completed even before others finished ...

Stephen Wolfram – the physicist who created Mathematica – reflects on how this computational tool has changed in 30 years, and on the practical and conceptual role that computational thinking plays in ...