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Launching Wolfram|Alpha Open Code
Code for Everyone Computational thinking needs to be an integral part of modern education—and today I’m excited to be able to launch another contribution to this goal: Wolfram|Alpha Open Code. Every...
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Two Hours of Experimental Mathematics
A Talk, a Performance… a Live Experiment “In the next hour I’m going to try to make a new discovery in mathematics.” So I began a few days ago at two different hour-long Math Encounters events at the...
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The R&D Pipeline Continues: Launching Version 11.1
A Minor Release That’s Not Minor I’m pleased to announce the release today of Version 11.1 of the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica). As of now, Version 11.1 is what’s running in the Wolfram Cloud—and...
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Launching the Wolfram Data Repository: Data Publishing that Really Works
After a Decade, It’s Finally Here! I’m pleased to announce that as of today, the Wolfram Data Repository is officially launched! It’s been a long road. I actually initiated the project a decade ago—but...
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Machine Learning for Middle Schoolers
(An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language is available in print, as an ebook, and free on the web—as well as in Wolfram Programming Lab in the Wolfram Open Cloud. There’s also now a free...
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A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View
Starting now, in celebration of its 15th anniversary, A New Kind of Science will be freely available in its entirety, with high-resolution images, on the web or for download. It’s now 15 years since I...
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Oh My Gosh, It’s Covered in Rule 30s!
A British Train Station A week ago a new train station, named “Cambridge North”, opened in Cambridge, UK. Normally such an event would be far outside my sphere of awareness. (I think I last took a...
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The Practical Business of Ontology: A Tale from the Front Lines
The Philosophy of Chemicals “We’ve just got to decide: is a chemical like a city or like a number?” I spent my day yesterday—as I have for much of the past 30 years—designing new features of the...
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High-School Summer Camp: A Two-Week Path to Computational Thinking
The Summer Camp Was a Success! How far can one get in teaching computational thinking to high-school students in two weeks? Judging by the results of this year’s Wolfram High-School Summer Camp the...
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When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillenium Tale of Computation
Preparing for August 21, 2017 On August 21, 2017, there’s going to be a total eclipse of the Sun visible on a line across the US. But when exactly will the eclipse occur at a given location? Being able...
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It’s Another Impressive Release! Launching Version 11.2 Today
Our Latest R&D Output I’m excited today to announce the latest output from our R&D pipeline: Version 11.2 of the Wolfram Language and Mathematica—available immediately on desktop (Mac, Windows,...
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Are All Fish the Same Shape if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On...
.colorbox-container { vertical-align: middle; } Is there a global theory for the shapes of fishes? It’s the kind of thing I might feel encouraged to ask by my explorations of simple programs and the...
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What Is a Computational Essay?
A Powerful Way to Express Ideas People are used to producing prose—and sometimes pictures—to express themselves. But in the modern age of computation, something new has become possible that I’d like to...
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What Do I Do All Day? Livestreamed Technology CEOing
Catch a current livestream, or watch recorded livestreams at twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram » Thinking in Public I’ve been CEOing Wolfram Research for more than 30 years now. But what does that actually...
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A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View
Starting now, in celebration of its 15th anniversary, A New Kind of Science will be freely available in its entirety, with high-resolution images, on the web or for download. It’s now 15 years since I...
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Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization
The Nature of the Problem Let’s say we had a way to distribute beacons around our solar system (or beyond) that could survive for billions of years, recording what our civilization has achieved. What...
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Roaring into 2018 with Another Big Release: Launching Version 11.3 of the...
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Buzzword Convergence: Making Sense of Quantum Neural Blockchain AI
Not Entirely Fooling Around What happens if you take four of today’s most popular buzzwords and string them together? Does the result mean anything? Given that today is April 1 (as well as being Easter...
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Learning about the Future from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fifty Years Later
A Glimpse of the Future It was 1968. I was 8 years old. The “space race” was in full swing. For the first time, a space probe had recently landed on another planet (Venus). And I was eagerly studying...
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Launching the Wolfram Challenges Site
The more one does computational thinking, the better one gets at it. And today we’re launching the Wolfram Challenges site to give everyone a source of bite-sized computational thinking challenges...
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