Can you think of another big company CEO that does basic science? Stephen Wolfram is the CEO of Wolfram Research – the company that developed Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha – but most fundamentally he has a deep commitment to figuring out the nature of reality. Stephen wrote the landmark ‘A new kind of science’ in 2002 and in his current ‘physics project’, Steven is trying to show that the universe is at its core computation, and that its fundamental laws arise from simple computational programs.
Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher talked with Stephen about how he drills down to get the simplest possible explanations to tackle the foundations of scientific fields. He also told them how he makes progress by coming in with new tools to the old problems, with his own brand of scientific creativity.
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