I love cellular automata, so I love Make Magazine's Cellular Automata Video Synthesizer Kit. With its retro screen resolution and bright, 8-bit era colors, it's the perfect generator for the pixels ...

There’s a time in every geek’s development when they learn of Conway’s Game of Life. This is usually followed by an afternoon spent on discovering that the standard rule set has been chosen because ...

Those of us interested in the position of mathematics in public culture could not help but be impressed a few weeks back, when the No. 1 spot on Amazon’s best-seller list was briefly occupied not by ...

Cranks are an occupational hazard that every scientist eventually faces. Fortunately, these characters are usually easy to spot. If someone claims to have a grand theory that overturns centuries of ...

In his keynote presentation to SXSW 2014 last week, computing pioneer Stephen Wolfram demonstrated the capabilities of his new Wolfram Language. But he ended his talk with a radical vision of the ...

Speaking to a large crowd in McCosh 50 yesterday evening, Stephen Wolfram, creator of the popular computer program Mathematica, said that all of nature can be modeled by computer programs based on one ...

Wolfram Alpha competes more with Wikipedia, Metaweb’s Freebase, True Knowledge, and any natural language search engines (such as Microsoft’s upcoming search engine, based perhaps in part on Powerset’s ...

Soon after it was released a few short years ago, I began to delve into Steven Wolfram's new book, "A Fundamental Theory of Physics." I have followed his work since the early '90s when I first used ...

A fascinating and potentially very fertile new approach for solving various scientific problems in mathematics, physics, cosmology, chemistry, biology, psychology and economics, to mention only the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leaders in many top organizations and institutions have played a major role in using computational intelligence and pushing the boundaries of how the Wolfram ...

Not everyone lays claim to inventing an new way of thinking scientifically about the world. Last year, Stephen Wolfram, who developed the popular technical computing software Mathematica, published a ...

Wolfram Research’s A New Kind of Science Explorer software kit provides an easy, animated introduction to the book A New Kind of Science, by company founder Stephen Wolfram. He claims that cellular ...