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Wolfram, Stephen

Stephen Wolfram

Wolfram Media, Inc.
Stephen Wolfram is a MacArthur Prize winner, and world-renowned for his work in scientific computing. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of 20. His breakthrough work involved studying the behavior of simple computer programs called “cellular automata”. After a career at Caltech, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and at the University of Illinois, he launched Wolfram Research, Inc., publisher of Mathematica, the world’s most widely used symbolic mathematics software.

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