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Launching a Democratization of Data Science
It’s a sad but true fact that most data that’s generated or collected—even with considerable effort—never gets any kind of serious analysis. But in a sense that’s not surprising. Because doing data...
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The Personal Analytics of My Life
One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed...
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Overcoming Artificial Stupidity
Today marks an important milestone for Wolfram|Alpha, and for computational knowledge in general: for the first time, Wolfram|Alpha is now on average giving complete, successful responses to more than...
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It’s Been 10 Years: What’s Happened with A New Kind of Science?
(This is the first of a series of posts related to next week’s tenth anniversary of A New Kind of Science.) On May 14, 2012, it’ll be 10 years since A New Kind of Science (”the NKS book”) was...
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Living a Paradigm Shift: Looking Back on Reactions to A New Kind of Science
(This is the second of a series of posts related to next week’s tenth anniversary of A New Kind of Science. The previous post covered developments since the book was published. ) “You’re destroying the...
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Looking to the Future of A New Kind of Science
(This is the third in a series of posts about A New Kind of Science. Previous posts have covered the original reaction to the book and what’s happened since it was published.) Today ten years have...
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Announcing Wolfram SystemModeler
Today I’m excited to be able to announce that our company is moving into yet another new area: large-scale system modeling. Last year, I wrote about our plans to initiate a new generation of...
View ArticleHappy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing
(This is an updated version of a post I wrote for Alan Turing’s 98th birthday.) Today (June 23, 2012) would have been Alan Turing’s 100th birthday—if he had not died in 1954, at the age of 41. I never...
View ArticleA Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story?
The announcement early yesterday morning of experimental evidence for what’s presumably the Higgs particle brings a certain closure to a story I’ve watched (and sometimes been a part of) for nearly 40...
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Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
After I wrote about doing personal analytics with data I’ve collected about myself, many people asked how they could do similar things themselves. Now of course most people haven’t been doing the kind...
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Kids, Arduinos and Quadricopters
I have four children, all with very different interests. My second-youngest, Christopher, age 13, has always liked technology. And last weekend he and I went to see the wild, wacky and creative...
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Latest Perspectives on the Computation Age
This is an edited version of a short talk I gave last weekend at The Nantucket Project—a fascinatingly eclectic event held on an island that I happen to have been visiting every summer for the past...
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Mathematica 9 Is Released Today!
I’m excited to be able to announce that today we’re releasing Mathematica 9—and it’s big! A whole array of new ideas and new application areas… and major advances along a great many algorithmic...
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“What Are You Going to Do Next?” Introducing the Predictive Interface
There aren’t very many qualitatively different types of computer interfaces in use in the world today. But with the release of Mathematica 9 I think we have the first truly practical example of a new...
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Welcome, National Museum of Mathematics
I was just in New York City for the grand opening of the National Museum of Mathematics. Yes, there is now a National Museum of Mathematics, right in downtown Manhattan. And it’s really good—a unique...
View ArticleRemembering Richard Crandall (1947-2012)
Richard Crandall liked to call himself a “computationalist”. For though he was trained in physics (and served for many years as a physics professor at Reed College), computation was at the center of...
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What Should We Call the Language of Mathematica?
At the core of Mathematica is a language. A very powerful symbolic language. Built up with great care over a quarter of a century—and now incorporating a huge swath of knowledge and computation....
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Talking about the Computational Future at SXSW 2013
Last week I gave a talk at SXSW 2013 in Austin about some of the things I’m thinking about these days—including quite a few that I’ve never talked publicly about before. Here’s a video, and a slightly...
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Data Science of the Facebook World
More than a million people have now used our Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. And as part of our latest update, in addition to collecting some anonymized statistics, we launched a Data...
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Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz
I’ve been curious about Gottfried Leibniz for years, not least because he seems to have wanted to build something like Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and perhaps A New Kind of Science as well—though...
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