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Remembering Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019), Inventor of Quarks
First Encounters In the mid-1970s, particle physics was hot. Quarks were in. Group theory was in. Field theory was in. And so much progress was being made that it seemed like the fundamental theory of...
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The Wolfram Function Repository: Launching an Open Platform for Extending the...
What the Wolfram Language Makes Possible We’re on an exciting path these days with the Wolfram Language. Just three weeks ago we launched the Free Wolfram Engine for Developers to help people integrate...
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A Few Thoughts about Deep Fakes
Someone from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence recently contacted me about a hearing they’re having on the subject of deep fakes. I can’t attend the hearing, but the conversation got...
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My Part in an Origin Story: The Launching of the Santa Fe Institute
The first workshop to define what is now the Santa Fe Institute took place on October 5–6, 1984. I was recently asked to give some reminiscences of the event, for a republication of a collection of...
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Testifying at the Senate about A.I.-Selected Content on the Internet
An Invitation to Washington Three and a half weeks ago I got an email asking me if I’d testify at a hearing of the US Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation...
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Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
(Artwork by Gunilla Feigenbaum) Behind the Feigenbaum Constant It’s called the Feigenbaum constant, and it’s about 4.6692016. And it shows up, quite universally, in certain kinds of mathematical—and...
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Fifty Years of Mentoring
I’ve been reflecting recently on things I like to do. Of course I like creating things, figuring things out, and so on. But something else I like—that I don’t believe I’ve ever written about before—is...
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A Book from Alan Turing… and a Mysterious Piece of Paper
How I Got the Book In May 2017, I got an email from a former high-school teacher of mine named George Rutter: “I have a copy of Dirac’s big book in German (Die Prinzipien der Quantenmechanik) that was...
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The Ease of Wolfram|Alpha, the Power of Mathematica: Introducing...
The Next Big Step for Wolfram|Alpha Wolfram|Alpha has been a huge hit with students. Whether in college or high school, Wolfram|Alpha has become a ubiquitous way for students to get answers. But it’s...
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Announcing the Rule 30 Prizes
Join Stephen Wolfram on October 7 for an AMA and explorations livestream discussing the Rule 30 Prizes » The Story of Rule 30 How can something that simple produce something that complex? It’s been...
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Just Published: Adventures of a Computational Explorer
Today my latest book is published: Adventures of a Computational Explorer. From the preface: “You work so hard… but what do you do for fun?” people will ask me. Well, the fact is that I’ve tried to set...
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The New World of Notebook Publishing
Wolfram Notebooks on the Web We’ve been working towards it for many years, but now it’s finally here: an incredibly smooth workflow for publishing Wolfram Notebooks to the web—that makes possible a new...
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A Few Thoughts about Deep Fakes
Someone from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence recently contacted me about a hearing they’re having on the subject of deep fakes. I can’t attend the hearing, but the conversation got...
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My Part in an Origin Story: The Launching of the Santa Fe Institute
The first workshop to define what is now the Santa Fe Institute took place on October 5–6, 1984. I was recently asked to give some reminiscences of the event, for a republication of a collection of...
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Testifying at the Senate about A.I.‑Selected Content on the Internet
An Invitation to Washington Three and a half weeks ago I got an email asking me if I’d testify at a hearing of the US Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation...
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Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944‑2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
(Artwork by Gunilla Feigenbaum) Behind the Feigenbaum Constant It’s called the Feigenbaum constant, and it’s about 4.6692016. And it shows up, quite universally, in certain kinds of mathematical—and...
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Fifty Years of Mentoring
I’ve been reflecting recently on things I like to do. Of course I like creating things, figuring things out, and so on. But something else I like—that I don’t believe I’ve ever written about before—is...
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A Book from Alan Turing… and a Mysterious Piece of Paper
How I Got the Book In May 2017, I got an email from a former high-school teacher of mine named George Rutter: “I have a copy of Dirac’s big book in German (Die Prinzipien der Quantenmechanik) that was...
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The Ease of Wolfram|Alpha, the Power of Mathematica: Introducing...
The Next Big Step for Wolfram|Alpha Wolfram|Alpha has been a huge hit with students. Whether in college or high school, Wolfram|Alpha has become a ubiquitous way for students to get answers. But it’s...
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Announcing the Rule 30 Prizes
The Story of Rule 30 How can something that simple produce something that complex? It’s been nearly 40 years since I first saw rule 30—but it still amazes me. Long ago it became my personal all-time...
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