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Wolfram Language Artificial Intelligence: The Image Identification Project
“What is this a picture of?” Humans can usually answer such questions instantly, but in the past it’s always seemed out of reach for computers to do this. For nearly 40 years I’ve been sure computers...
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George Boole: A 200-Year View
Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Boole. In our modern digital world, we’re always hearing about “Boolean variables”—1 or 0, true or false. And one might think, “What a trivial...
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How Should We Talk to AIs?
Not many years ago, the idea of having a computer broadly answer questions asked in plain English seemed like science fiction. But when we released Wolfram|Alpha in 2009 one of the big surprises (not...
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What Is Spacetime, Really?
A hundred years ago today Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity—a brilliant, elegant theory that has survived a century, and provides the only successful way we have of describing...
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I Wrote a Book—To Teach the Wolfram Language
An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language is available in print, free on the web, etc. I wasn’t sure if I was ever going to write another book. My last book—A New Kind of Science—took me more...
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Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace
(New York Public Library) Ada Lovelace was born 200 years ago today. To some she is a great hero in the history of computing; to others an overestimated minor figure. I’ve been curious for a long time...
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Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab
I’m excited today to be able to announce the launch of Wolfram Programming Lab—an environment for anyone to learn programming and computational thinking through the Wolfram Language. You can run...
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Farewell, Marvin Minsky (1927–2016)
I think it was 1979 when I first met Marvin Minsky, while I was still a teenager working on physics at Caltech. It was a weekend, and I’d arranged to see Richard Feynman to discuss some physics. But...
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Launching the Wolfram Open Cloud: Open Access to the Wolfram Language
Six and a half years ago we put Wolfram|Alpha and the sophisticated computational knowledge it delivers out free on the web for anyone in the world to use. Now we’re launching the Wolfram Open Cloud to...
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Black Hole Tech?
The Theory Works! The equation that Albert Einstein wrote down for the gravitational field in 1915 is simple enough: But working out its consequences is not. And in fact even after 100 years we’re...
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My Life in Technology—As Told at the Computer History Museum
Edited transcript of a talk given on March 4, 2016, at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California. #videoContainer { width: 560px; height: 315px; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;...
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Who Was Ramanujan?
This week’s release of the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity (which I saw in rough form last fall through its mathematican-producers Manjul Bhargava and Ken Ono) leads me to write about its subject,...
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Something I Learned in Kindergarten
Fifty years ago today there was a six-year-old at a kindergarten (“nursery school” in British English) in Oxford, England who was walking under some trees and noticed that the patches of light under...
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Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)
The Most-Used Mathematical Algorithm Idea in History An octillion. A billion billion billion. That’s a fairly conservative estimate of the number of times a cellphone or other device somewhere in the...
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Idea Makers: A Book about Lives & Ideas
I spend most of my time trying to build the future with science and technology. But for many years now I’ve also had two other great interests: people and history. And today I’m excited to be...
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Today We Launch Version 11!
I’m thrilled today to announce the release of a major new version of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language: Version 11, available immediately for both desktop and cloud. Hundreds of us have been...
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How to Teach Computational Thinking
The Computational Future Computational thinking is going to be a defining feature of the future—and it’s an incredibly important thing to be teaching to kids today. There’s always lots of discussion...
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Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse and the AI Constitution
Leibniz’s Dream Gottfried Leibniz—who died 300 years ago this November—worked on many things. But a theme that recurred throughout his life was the goal of turning human law into an exercise in...
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A Short Talk on AI Ethics
Last week I gave a talk (and did a panel discussion) at a conference entitled “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” held at the NYU Philosophy Department’s Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness....
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Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?
[This post is about the movie Arrival; there are no movie spoilers here.] Connecting with Hollywood “It’s an interesting script” said someone on our PR team. It’s pretty common for us to get requests...
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