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Stephen Wolfram was born in London in 1959 to Hugo and Sybil Wolfram, both German Jewish refugees to the United Kingdom. [10] His maternal grandmother was British psychoanalyst Kate Friedlander. Wolfram's father, Hugo Wolfram, was a textile manufacturer and served as managing director of the Lurex Company—makers of the fabric Lurex. [11]
Stephen Wolfram independently began working on cellular automata in mid-1981 after considering how complex patterns seemed formed in nature in violation of the second law of thermodynamics. [29] His investigations were initially spurred by a desire to model systems such as the neural networks found in brains. [ 29 ]
A physicist considers whether artificial intelligence can fix science, regulation, and innovation.
Wolfram code is a widely used [1] numbering system for one-dimensional cellular automaton rules, introduced by Stephen Wolfram in a 1983 paper [2] and popularized in his book A New Kind of Science. [ 3 ]
Police removed the remains of 63 fetuses from a funeral home and regulators shuttered the business amid a widening investigation of alleged improprieties.
A motive has not been identified in the killing
On May 14, 2007, Wolfram announced a $25,000 prize to be won by the first person to prove or disprove the universality of the (2,3) Turing machine. [2] On 24 October 2007, it was announced that the prize had been won by Alex Smith, a student in electronics and computing at the University of Birmingham , for his proof that it was universal.
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