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2025
(4)
What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton?
March 18, 2025
Towards a Computational Formalization for Foundations of Medicine
February 3, 2025
Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI
January 23, 2025
Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
January 9, 2025
2024
(13)
Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant
December 9, 2024
Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results & More Surprises
December 5, 2024
On the Nature of Time
October 8, 2024
Nestedly Recursive Functions
September 27, 2024
Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next
August 29, 2024
What's Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
August 22, 2024
Yet More New Ideas and New Functions: Launching Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
July 31, 2024
Ruliology of the "Forgotten" Code 10
June 1, 2024
Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes
May 3, 2024
When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation
March 29, 2024
Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language
March 29, 2024
Can AI Solve Science?
March 5, 2024
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
January 9, 2024
2023
(19)
Observer Theory
December 11, 2023
Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes
November 3, 2023
How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything
October 27, 2023
Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics
September 29, 2023
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
September 5, 2023
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
August 22, 2023
Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
July 17, 2023
LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
June 28, 2023
Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm
June 8, 2023
Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository
June 7, 2023
The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language
May 23, 2023
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
April 27, 2023
ChatGPT Gets Its "Wolfram Superpowers"!
March 23, 2023
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It's Complicated...
March 15, 2023
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
February 14, 2023
Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics
February 3, 2023
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics
February 2, 2023
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
January 31, 2023
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
January 9, 2023
2022
(9)
The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
December 14, 2022
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳
June 29, 2022
Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology
June 16, 2022
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
June 8, 2022
Twenty Years Later: The Surprising Greater Implications of
A New Kind of Science
May 16, 2022
The Making of
A New Kind of Science
May 13, 2022
We've Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It's Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!
April 6, 2022
On the Concept of Motion
March 18, 2022
The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics
March 7, 2022
2021
(18)
Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
December 13, 2021
The Concept of the Ruliad
November 10, 2021
Celebrating a Third of a Century of Mathematica, and Looking Forward
October 22, 2021
Multicomputation with Numbers: The Case of Simple Multiway Systems
October 7, 2021
Charting a Course for "Complexity": Metamodeling, Ruliology and More
September 23, 2021
Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science
September 9, 2021
1920, 2020 and a $20,000 Prize: Announcing the S Combinator Challenge
June 8, 2021
How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?
May 25, 2021
Launching Version 12.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
May 20, 2021
The Problem of Distributed Consensus
May 17, 2021
Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project
April 28, 2021
The Wolfram Physics Project:
A One-Year Update
April 14, 2021
The Wolfram Physics Project:
A Gallery of the First Year
April 14, 2021
A Little Closer to Finding What Became of Moses Schönfinkel, Inventor of Combinators
March 29, 2021
What Is Consciousness? Some New Perspectives from Our Physics Project
March 22, 2021
After 100 Years, Can We Finally Crack Post's Problem of Tag? A Story of Computational Irreducibility, and More
March 4, 2021
Multiway Turing Machines
February 4, 2021
Tini Veltman (1931–2021): From Assembly Language to a Nobel Prize
January 21, 2021
2020
(14)
Launching Version 12.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: 228 New Functions and Much More...
December 16, 2020
Where Did Combinators Come From? Hunting the Story of Moses Schönfinkel
December 7, 2020
Combinators and the Story of Computation
December 7, 2020
Combinators: A Centennial View
December 6, 2020
Our Mission and the Opportunity of Artifacts from the Future
October 7, 2020
Faster than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
October 2, 2020
The Empirical Metamathematics of Euclid and Beyond
September 28, 2020
A Burst of Physics Progress at the 2020 Wolfram Summer School
July 31, 2020
Exploring Rulial Space: The Case of Turing Machines
June 9, 2020
Event Horizons, Singularities and Other Exotic Spacetime Phenomena
May 20, 2020
The Wolfram Physics Project:
The First Two Weeks
April 29, 2020
Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics...
and It's Beautiful
April 14, 2020
How We Got Here: The Backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project
April 14, 2020
In Less Than a Year, So Much New: Launching Version 12.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
March 18, 2020
2019
(18)
The New World of Notebook Publishing
October 24, 2019
Just Published:
Adventures of a Computational Explorer
October 16, 2019
Announcing the Rule 30 Prizes
October 1, 2019
The Ease of Wolfram|Alpha, the Power of Mathematica: Introducing Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition
September 12, 2019
A Book from Alan Turing... and a Mysterious Piece of Paper
August 27, 2019
Fifty Years of Mentoring
August 21, 2019
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4.66920160910299067185320382..." >
Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019),
4.66920160910299067185320382...
July 23, 2019
Testifying at the Senate about A.I.-Selected Content on the Internet
June 25, 2019
My Part in an Origin Story:
The Launching of the Santa Fe Institute
June 18, 2019
A Few Thoughts about Deep Fakes
June 12, 2019
The Wolfram Function Repository: Launching an Open Platform for Extending the Wolfram Language
June 11, 2019
Remembering Murray Gell-Mann
(1929--2019), Inventor of Quarks
May 30, 2019
Launching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
May 21, 2019
Wolfram|Alpha at 10
May 18, 2019
What We've Built Is a Computational Language (and That's Very Important!)
May 9, 2019
A World Run with Code
May 2, 2019
Version 12 Launches Today! (And It's a Big Jump for Wolfram Language and Mathematica)
April 16, 2019
Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
February 21, 2019
2018
(8)
The Story of Spikey
December 28, 2018
Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding
November 6, 2018
We've Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven't Seen Anything Yet!)
June 21, 2018
Launching the Wolfram Challenges Site
April 12, 2018
Learning about the Future from
2001: A Space Odyssey
, Fifty Years Later
April 3, 2018
Buzzword Convergence: Making Sense of Quantum Neural Blockchain AI
April 1, 2018
Roaring into 2018 with Another Big Release: Launching Version 11.3 of the Wolfram Language & Mathematica
March 8, 2018
Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization
January 25, 2018
2017
(13)
What Do I Do All Day? Livestreamed Technology CEOing
December 11, 2017
What Is a Computational Essay?
November 14, 2017
Are All Fish the Same Shape if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of
On Growth and Form
October 25, 2017
It’s Another Impressive Release! Launching Version 11.2 Today
September 14, 2017
When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillenium Tale of Computation
August 15, 2017
High-School Summer Camp: A Two-Week Path to Computational Thinking
August 2, 2017
The Practical Business of Ontology: A Tale from the Front Lines
July 19, 2017
Oh My Gosh, It’s Covered in Rule 30s!
June 1, 2017
A New Kind of Science
: A 15-Year View
May 16, 2017
Machine Learning for Middle Schoolers
May 11, 2017
Launching the Wolfram Data Repository: Data Publishing that Really Works
April 20, 2017
The R&D Pipeline Continues: Launching Version 11.1
March 16, 2017
Two Hours of Experimental Mathematics
March 6, 2017
2016
(15)
Launching Wolfram|Alpha Open Code
December 12, 2016
Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?
November 10, 2016
A Short Talk on AI Ethics
October 17, 2016
Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse and the AI Constitution
October 12, 2016
How to Teach Computational Thinking
September 7, 2016
Today We Launch Version 11!
August 8, 2016
Idea Makers
: A Book about Lives & Ideas
July 7, 2016
Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)
May 25, 2016
Something I Learned in Kindergarten
May 20, 2016
Who Was Ramanujan?
April 27, 2016
My Life in Technology---As Told at the Computer History Museum
April 19, 2016
Black Hole Tech?
February 22, 2016
Launching the Wolfram Open Cloud: Open Access to the Wolfram Language
January 28, 2016
Farewell, Marvin Minsky (1927–2016)
January 26, 2016
Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab
January 19, 2016
2015
(11)
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace
December 10, 2015
I Wrote a Book—To Teach the Wolfram Language
December 8, 2015
What Is Spacetime, Really?
December 2, 2015
How Should We Talk to AIs?
November 18, 2015
George Boole: A 200-Year View
November 2, 2015
Wolfram Language Artificial Intelligence: The Image Identification Project
May 13, 2015
Instant Apps for the Apple Watch with the Wolfram Language
April 28, 2015
Scientific Bug Hunting in the Cloud: An Unexpected CEO Adventure
April 16, 2015
Frontiers of Computational Thinking: A SXSW Report
March 23, 2015
Pi or Pie?! Celebrating Pi Day of the Century (And How to Get Your Very Own Piece of Pi)
March 12, 2015
The Wolfram Data Drop Is Live!
March 4, 2015
2014
(10)
Introducing Tweet-a-Program
September 18, 2014
Launching Today:
Mathematica
Online!
September 15, 2014
Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics
August 12, 2014
Entrepreneurism of Ideas: An Education Adventure
July 28, 2014
Launching
Mathematica
10---with 700+ New Functions and a Crazy Amount of R&D
July 9, 2014
Wolfram Programming Cloud Is Live!
June 23, 2014
A Speech for (High-School) Graduates
June 9, 2014
Injecting Computation Everywhere--A SXSW Update
March 25, 2014
Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language
February 24, 2014
Launching the Wolfram Connected Devices Project
January 6, 2014
2013
(9)
"Happy Holidays", the Wolfram Language Way
December 27, 2013
Putting the Wolfram Language (and
Mathematica
) on Every Raspberry Pi
November 21, 2013
Something Very Big Is Coming: Our Most Important Technology Project Yet
November 13, 2013
Celebrating
Mathematica
’s First Quarter Century
June 23, 2013
There Was a Time before
Mathematica
...
June 6, 2013
Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz
May 14, 2013
Data Science of the Facebook World
April 24, 2013
Talking about the Computational Future at SXSW 2013
March 19, 2013
What Should We Call the Language of
Mathematica
?
February 12, 2013
2012
(18)
Remembering Richard Crandall (1947–2012)
December 30, 2012
Welcome, National Museum of Mathematics
December 17, 2012
"What Are You Going to Do Next?" Introducing the Predictive Interface
December 6, 2012
Mathematica
9 Is Released Today!
November 28, 2012
Latest Perspectives on the Computation Age
October 11, 2012
Kids, Arduinos and Quadricopters
October 4, 2012
Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
August 30, 2012
A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story?
July 5, 2012
Happy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing
June 23, 2012
Announcing Wolfram
SystemModeler
May 23, 2012
Looking to the Future of
A New Kind of Science
May 14, 2012
Living a Paradigm Shift: Looking Back on Reactions to
A New Kind of Science
May 11, 2012
It's Been 10 Years: What's Happened with
A New Kind of Science
?
May 7, 2012
Overcoming Artificial Stupidity
April 17, 2012
The Personal Analytics of My Life
March 8, 2012
Launching a Democratization of Data Science
February 9, 2012
Announcing Wolfram|Alpha Pro
February 8, 2012
A .data Top-Level Internet Domain?
January 10, 2012
2011
(15)
Imagining the Future with
A New Kind of Science
October 18, 2011
The Background and Vision of
Mathematica
October 11, 2011
Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
October 6, 2011
Scaling Up the Wolfram|Alpha Project
August 30, 2011
Advance of the Data Civilization: A Timeline
August 16, 2011
Wolfram|Alpha Comes Alive with CDF
August 11, 2011
Music,
Mathematica
, and the Computational Universe
June 17, 2011
A Precociousness Record (Almost) Broken
June 1, 2011
Talking about Computing and Philosophy
May 31, 2011
Wolfram|Alpha: The Second Anniversary
May 20, 2011
Computation and the Future of Biomedicine
April 19, 2011
Launching a New Era in Large-Scale Systems Modeling
March 30, 2011
Jeopardy
, IBM, and Wolfram|Alpha
January 26, 2011
Knowledge-Based Computing and Version 2.0 of the Wolfram|Alpha API
January 20, 2011
An App for Every Course, and More
January 12, 2011
2010
(13)
Touch Press: The Second Book
December 24, 2010
100 Years Since
Principia Mathematica
November 25, 2010
Programming with Natural Language Is Actually Going to Work
November 16, 2010
The Free-Form Linguistics Revolution in
Mathematica
November 15, 2010
Mathematica
8!
November 15, 2010
State of Wolfram Technology 2010
November 12, 2010
The Poetry of Function Naming
October 18, 2010
"The Emerging Computation Revolution"--A Talk
October 8, 2010
Making the World's Data Computable
September 24, 2010
A New Kind of Science
is on the iPad!
September 21, 2010
Welcome to the Blog
September 18, 2010
Announcing the Wolfram Data Summit
June 7, 2010
Wolfram|Alpha: The First Year
May 18, 2010
2009
(5)
What We've Been Doing This Summer
August 20, 2009
The First Week of Wolfram|Alpha: Thank You!
May 26, 2009
Wolfram|Alpha Is Launching: Made Possible by
Mathematica
May 15, 2009
7 years of NKS---and its first killer app
May 14, 2009
Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!
March 5, 2009
2008
(4)
Surprise!
Mathematica
7.0 Released Today!
November 18, 2008
Russell Towle: 1949--2008
October 10, 2008
Mathematica
Turns 20 Today
June 23, 2008
Ten Thousand Hours of Design Reviews
January 10, 2008
2007
(9)
Mathematics,
Mathematica
and Certainty
December 8, 2007
Simple Turing Machines, Universality, Encodings, etc.
October 28, 2007
The Prize Is Won; The Simplest Universal Turing Machine Is Proved
October 24, 2007
My Hobby: Hunting for Our Universe
September 11, 2007
The Space of All Possible Bridge Shapes
August 3, 2007
Science: Live and in Public
July 11, 2007
Today We Put a Prize on a Small Turing Machine
May 14, 2007
Five Years of
A New Kind of Science
May 14, 2007
Today,
Mathematica
Is Reinvented
May 1, 2007
2006
(1)
Kurt Gödel's 100th Birthday
May 1, 2006
2004
(2)
NKS: Two Years Later
May 14, 2004
Long-Range Cellular Automata
May 8, 2004
2003
(2)
John von Neumann's 100th Birthday
December 28, 2003
Cellular Automata from Christmas 1983
December 24, 2003
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