We’ve Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven’t Seen Anything...
Technology for the Long Term On June 23 we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Mathematica. Most software from 30 years ago is now long gone. But not Mathematica. In fact, it feels in many...
View ArticleLogic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding
A Discovery about Basic Logic Logic is a foundation for many things. But what are the foundations of logic itself? In symbolic logic, one introduces symbols like p and q to stand for statements (or...
View ArticleAre 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleWhat Do I Do All Day? Livestreamed Technology CEOing
Catch a current livestream, or watch recorded livestreams here » Thinking in Public I’ve been CEOing Wolfram Research for more than 30 years now. But what does that actually entail? What do I end up...
View ArticleShowing 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...
View ArticleRoaring into 2018 with Another Big Release: Launching Version 11.3 of the...
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View ArticleBuzzword 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...
View ArticleLearning 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...
View ArticleLaunching 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...
View ArticleWe’ve Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven’t Seen Anything...
Technology for the Long Term On June 23 we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Mathematica. Most software from 30 years ago is now long gone. But not Mathematica. In fact, it feels in many...
View ArticleLogic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding
A Discovery about Basic Logic Logic is a foundation for many things. But what are the foundations of logic itself? In symbolic logic, one introduces symbols like p and q to stand for statements (or...
View ArticleThe Story of Spikey
Spikeys Everywhere We call it “Spikey”, and in my life today, it’s everywhere: It comes from a 3D object—a polyhedron that’s called a rhombic hexecontahedron: But what is its story, and how did we...
View ArticleThe Story of Spikey
Spikeys Everywhere We call it “Spikey”, and in my life today, it’s everywhere: It comes from a 3D object—a polyhedron that’s called a rhombic hexecontahedron: But what is its story, and how did we...
View ArticleSeeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
The Pursuit of Productivity I’m a person who’s only satisfied if I feel I’m being productive. I like figuring things out. I like making things. And I want to do as much of that as I can. And part of...
View ArticleVersion 12 Launches Today! (And It’s a Big Jump for Wolfram Language...
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View ArticleA World Run with Code
This is an edited transcript of a recent talk I gave at a blockchain conference, where I said I’d talk about “What will the world be like when computational intelligence and computational contracts are...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Built Is a Computational Language (and That’s Very...
What Kind of a Thing Is the Wolfram Language? I’ve sometimes found it a bit of a struggle to explain what the Wolfram Language really is. Yes, it’s a computer language—a programming language. And it...
View ArticleWolfram|Alpha at 10
The Wolfram|Alpha Story Today it’s 10 years since we launched Wolfram|Alpha. At some level, Wolfram|Alpha is a never-ending project. But it’s had a great first 10 years. It was a unique and surprising...
View ArticleLaunching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
Why Aren’t You Using Our Technology? It happens far too often. I’ll be talking to a software developer, and they’ll be saying how great they think our technology is, and how it helped them so much in...
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