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Computing a theory of all knowledge

Stephen Wolfram · TED

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About

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2010
Speaker
Stephen Wolfram
Year
2010
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Computer science
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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