Stephen Wolfram

"What could possibly go wrong?" Exploring the ruliology of the unexpected ... to develop a theory of bugs ... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/07/towa...

Just finished the very energizing experience of working with 84 talented high-school students at our 2026 Wolfram Summer Research Program (& coming up with projects that suit them). It's so impressive and encouraging to see what they were able to do in <2 weeks! education.wolfram.com/summer-resea...

Another new thing delivered with Version 15: click a button to give Wolfram superpowers to your AI system! Immediately connect Claude, Codex, etc. to your local Wolfram|One, Mathematica, etc. via MCP... www.wolfram.com/artificial-i...

Launched today: Version 15 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica. Built-in (useful) AI, and a *lot* of new core functionality... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/laun...

What happens when agents with all possible strategies compete? That's a question for ruliology. With some surprising answers... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/game...

42 years ago today I made a surprising discovery that every year has been showing us more and more about the answer to life, the universe and everything... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/a-50...

Might we now have the science we need to actually answer many of the core questions of metaphysics? writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/what...

Attacking the P vs. NP problem with ruliology ... the beginnings of empirical theoretical computer science writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/p-vs...

What is ruliology? Posting an explanation of what one can think of as the ultimate basic science---the most foundational and most general form of theoretical science... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what...

"Those posts have enough in them to be little books!" Well, now they are. (With more to come...) www.wolfram-media.com/products/

Victorians called it "protoplasm". But what really is "living matter"? And can we make a foundational theory of such a microscopically "bulk orchestrated" form of matter? Seems like maybe we can ... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/11/what...

Congratulations to our 2025 Wolfram Innovator Award winners! Such an interesting group doing such interesting and important things! blog.wolfram.com/2025/11/07/a...

Yes, we have a rich history. But as I prepare (for the 37th time!) for my keynote tomorrow at our annual Wolfram Technology Conference I'm most excited to talk about what's next. Join me live at 1 pm ET www.youtube.com/Wolfram_Rese...

Dropped in at Bletchley Park ... and at the National Museum of Computing met an old friend: an Elliott 903---the first kind of computer I used (in 1972). I think I've aged better...

If you do functional programming (like in Wolfram Language) you've probably used lots of pure functions, or lambdas. But what are lambdas like in the wild? Things I'm doing in CS, bio and ML converged to make me curious to find out... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/09/the-...

Trying to understand yet another strange collection of creatures in the computational universe....

I've been getting mail with unsolicited "theories of physics" for 50 (!) years. What can one do with all that enthusiasm and energy? Maybe now I have an idea... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/08/i-ha...

Launching Version 14.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica. It's a version with a particularly large number of very long-awaited features (including ones planned for 38(!) years) ... that we finally figured out how to deliver! 🎁 writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/08/new-...

Nice pictures I happened to just get and thought I should share...

Just finished three exciting weeks of our (23rd!) annual Wolfram Summer School ... with lots of interesting projects done ... www.wolframcloud.com/obj/microsit...

I've often wondered what it'd be like if we had bigger brains. It's not easy to imagine what minds beyond ours might be like ... but I just gave it a try ... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/05/what...

Today is the birthday of A New Kind of Science. What a huge project that was (10+ years, etc.)! I'm still amazed it actually got done. At the 20th anniversary I told some of the behind-the-scenes story... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/05/the-...

From the point of view of science I've never been too excited about the Game of Life. But now I realize that what's really exciting about it is what it tells us about what we can call metaengineering... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/03/what...

#PiDay served with a slice of off the cuff history from @stephenwolfram.bsky.social youtu.be/fvbDvPbH00w?...

I'm excited to share yet another (unexpected) application of my recent science: a computational formalization for foundations of medicine. (Why is medicine hard? Are there a finite number of diseases? ...) writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/02/towa...

A quarter century ago this minute ... a century-old problem was solved when out of my Mathematica program popped the shortest possible axiom system for logic ... though to this day nobody understands the computer-generated proof...

Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: big data meets computation & AI... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/laun...

Just wrapped this year's Wolfram Science Winter School. Lots of ruliological intuition building, mixed with mathematical physics and some computational philosophy... education.wolfram.com/programs/

Formalized math: meet computational irreducibility. A simple (if surprising) theorem. An automated proof nobody seems able to understand. A tale of adventure in the wilds of metamathematical space... #MathSky writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/who-...

An unexpected little ruliological discovery just made live a few minutes ago during my inaugural "Q&A for Scientists" livestream... youtu.be/9_t1ysElDL8

Useful to the point of being revolutionary: introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant! writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/usef...

Biological evolution is a fundamentally computational phenomenon! Just posted lots of new results (and surprises) from my minimal model of adaptive evolution... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/foun...

Born 65 years ago this minute. Happy to say the last five years have been my all-time most productive (so far)... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five...

Taller and broader. Announcing Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ... available today for desktop, cloud, etc. The same core mission and core ideas. But 36 years later ... check out what it's turned into! writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/07/yet-...

How do the LLMs compare? Leveraging our "code grading" tech to introduce weekly computationally grounded LLM benchmarking... www.wolfram.com/llm-benchmar...

Foundations of physics, mathematics, computing ... now biology! The ruliad is on a roll.... (Up next: machine learning ?) writings.stephenwolfram.com/all-by-date/

They're the ruliad champions! The "busy beavers" of the (symmetric 3-color) cellular automaton world ... the rules that live longest before dying out... [How does that rule "know" to die out after 2194 steps??] writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-...

Biological evolution. Machine learning. Why do adaptive processes actually work? Finally found what seems like a good minimal model for biological evolution.... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-...

Found some new friends today in the computational universe:

In case you missed today's eclipse, there are always more to come (at least for the next few hundred million years). Here's where the total eclipses will be for the next 100 years: writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/comp...

The eclipse from first principles: using the Wolfram Language (and its SolarEclipse[] function) to compute eclipses (and to analyze a couple of the eclipses I've seen) writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/comp...