Stephen Wolfram
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research; created Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha.
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Wolfram Research (CEO)
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- Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist and businessman.
- He founded Wolfram Research in 1987 and released Mathematica in 1988.
- He wrote A New Kind of Science (2002) on simple computational systems.
- In 2020 he launched the Wolfram Physics Project.
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- Born
- 29 August 1959, London1
- PhD
- Particle physics, Caltech, 19801
- MacArthur Fellowship
- 1981, at age 211
- Company
- Founded Wolfram Research in 1987; founder and CEO1
- Products
- Mathematica (1988); Wolfram|Alpha (2009); Wolfram Language1
- Books
- A New Kind of Science (2002); A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics (2020)1
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