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Category: Historical Perspectives

Nestedly Recursive Functions

Ruliology of the “Forgotten” Code 10

When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation

Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic

Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

The Making of A New Kind of Science

Celebrating a Third of a Century of Mathematica, and Looking Forward

Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

A Little Closer to Finding What Became of Moses Schönfinkel, Inventor of Combinators

After 100 Years, Can We Finally Crack Post’s Problem of Tag? A Story of Computational Irreducibility, and More

Tini Veltman (1931–2021): From Assembly Language to a Nobel Prize

Where Did Combinators Come From? Hunting the Story of Moses Schönfinkel

Combinators and the Story of Computation

The Empirical Metamathematics of Euclid and Beyond

How We Got Here: The Backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project

A Book from Alan Turing… and a Mysterious Piece of Paper

Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…

My Part in an Origin Story:
The Launching of the Santa Fe Institute

Remembering Murray Gell-Mann
(1929–2019), Inventor of Quarks

Wolfram|Alpha at 10

The Story of Spikey

Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding

We’ve Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet!)

Learning about the Future from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fifty Years Later

Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization

Are All Fish the Same Shape if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth and Form

When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillenium Tale of Computation

Idea Makers: A Book about Lives & Ideas

Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)

Who Was Ramanujan?

My Life in Technology—As Told at the Computer History Museum

Farewell, Marvin Minsky (1927–2016)

Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace

What Is Spacetime, Really?

George Boole: A 200-Year View

Wolfram Language Artificial Intelligence: The Image Identification Project

There Was a Time before Mathematica…

Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz

Remembering Richard Crandall (1947–2012)

A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story?

Happy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing

Living a Paradigm Shift: Looking Back on Reactions to A New Kind of Science

It’s Been 10 Years: What’s Happened with A New Kind of Science?

Steve Jobs: A Few Memories

Advance of the Data Civilization: A Timeline

Wolfram|Alpha: The Second Anniversary

100 Years Since Principia Mathematica

Wolfram|Alpha: The First Year

What We’ve Been Doing This Summer

The First Week of Wolfram|Alpha: Thank You!

7 years of NKS—and its first killer app

Russell Towle: 1949–2008

Mathematica Turns 20 Today

Five Years of A New Kind of Science

Kurt Gödel’s 100th Birthday

John von Neumann’s 100th Birthday

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