Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: History of Lisp? - What was ctrl+enter used for in Mathematica before Wolfram|Alpha? Were you saving that the whole time for such an important purpose? - Its crazy to think that the history of computing has less than 100 years - I'm guessing the first ASCII table was only 8 bit?...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What is beta decay? - I'm confused about the mass of quarks inside of protons/neutrons, somewhere I saw numbers of only a few electrons and the rest is binding energy? - Do you think you'll be able to wirelessly "charge" your house in your lifetime? [like Tesla's wireless electricity e...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: Tell us about your failures as an entrepreneur and what you learnt from them? - What is your opinion about software patents? - How many hours did you work in academia compared when you went to industry? - How can young people, like my niece obsessed with Fusion Rockets, follow their ...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What are the biggest differences you notice about how physicists think vs. how mathematicians think? - A typical text file is a few KB, a typical audio file is a few MB, a typical video file is a few GB. What would a typical file size be for smell, taste and touch? Is there a reason wh...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What is the history of black holes discovery? - Is gravitoelectromagnetism sufficient to get black holes with event horizon or do you need the full GR framework to get them? - Ernst Mach has a great book on history of mechanics (reading at the moment). The whole development of G...
Jan 28, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Mario Carneiro and Norman Megill. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Jan 14, 2022•2 hr 33 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Terry Sejnowski. Part 2 (of 2) Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 40 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Terry Sejnowski. Part 1 (of 2 parts). Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 35 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Jan Ambjorn. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Dec 22, 2021•2 hr 25 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Andy Strominger. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 53 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Fred Meinberg. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Dec 10, 2021•2 hr 34 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Gregory Chaitin. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 34 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations Part 2 (of two podcasts).
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 48 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations Part 1 (of two podcasts)
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 42 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Louis Kauffman. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Nov 18, 2021•2 hr 5 min
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Bob Coecke. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations
Nov 10, 2021•2 hr 43 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Is there any experiment in computation similar to Miller - Urey experiment? - Can there be life inside a solid? - ill it be possible in the future to create an atmosphere on a planetary scale? - Why can electromagnetic waves transfer in space while sound waves can't? - Could the physic...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: How did Champaign become the base of operations of the company? - Why haven't you lived in Champaign for "three decades"? - Is it a doable thing to work at a university and run a startup at the same time? - Hi Stephen, at pre-revenue stage, should a company aim for reaching revenue f...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: When an electron moves from one energy level to another and it releases a photon, is the direction of the photon random? - Can you please explain inertial and non-inertial reference frames? What are their implications? - Why do humans have an appendix even though it is unnecessary? - W...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: When did Neural Networks (and more generally these more black box type algos) overtake more traditional optimization approaches such as nonlinear programming and why do you think this happened? - Are memories stored in the brain? - Bell Labs is the company that developed C and U...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Why does Occam's razor work? - Stephen, do you know how to cook? - How would you explain the goal of your physics project to a 5 year old? - Yuval recently indicated that the next pandemic (crisis) will be an attack on the internet. What do you think? - What did you think about that st...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: Can you give us some insights into how you scaled up Wolfram, and what important issues / questions you had to tackle or what significant lessons you learned? - Are there cultural biases that you have had to overcome for breaking any prior limits in the possibilities of your activiti...
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Why is there a size limit for a planetary body in the universe? Is the size of Jupiter the largest that is possible? - What happens to the electrons before the sun fusion occurs? - Why does it take up to 100,000 years for a photon to go from the core to the surface of the sun while onl...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: I am interested in the evolution of mechanics from Newton through d'Alembert to Lagrange. Could you elaborate on this? Why was it the Europeans that created the modern mathematical framework and not the Chinese? They obviously had a head start. Why don't we use Chinese character...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Is sociology a real science? Can it predict something? - Should we use Inductive reasoning in science? - What is a number? - Would computer processing speed increase if we had a compendium of mathematical proofs? - What's the worst computer bug you have ever had? What was the simplest ...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: Why did you choose to partner up with Ethereum and Cardano? What do you think of Cryptocurrencies in general? - Have you ever meet Stephen Wozniak? - How do Wolfram Research determine the prices of its products? Any tips for pricing products? - Cryptocurrency is living a top of the d...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: If you couldn't be a human, what animal would you want to be and why? - What technology is necessary for us humans to be able to provide an evolutionary "update" to any of our sensory organs? - Are there any implication of standardizing the identification of chemical signatures of odou...
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Stephen Wolfram presents the opening keynote for the 2021 Wolfram Summer School live to this years students across the globe! Get a taste of what it's like to engage in our annual summer programs, to find out more see the full list of our Education programs: https://education.wolfram.com/programs/
Aug 05, 2021•2 hr 5 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Any stories about your work for Thinking Machines? - c/c++ have # omp parallel for loop parallelization, but there's nothing quite for distributed variable storage - Have you seen those Combinator Graph reduction Machines? - Have you read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", "Wha...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: How does the Bloomberg Terminal work? - Did that guy find his satellite by the way? or did it just float off into space or lose power? - What are Feynman Diagrams? - How do holograms work and why don't we have more holographic technology? - Have you read "The Deep Learning Revolution:"...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 21 min
