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Interviews and Publications about Stephen Wolfram

Media Profiles

This page includes only a sampling of published materials about Stephen Wolfram. A more complete bibliography is available here. Also see Verbatim Interviews.

Note: Material here is given as published; inaccuracies have not been corrected.

(There has been extensive media coverage about Wolfram|Alpha; included here are a sampling of pieces concentrating on Stephen Wolfram rather than Wolfram|Alpha technology.)

 

Q&A: Stephen Wolfram on the Power and Challenge of Big Data
     (Popular Science, 2011) [online version]

Wolfram Alpha Turns 2: "People Just Need What We Are Doing"
     (Wired, 2011) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram Interview with Leo Laporte
     (TWiT, 2011) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram: Can He Topple Google?
     (The Guardian, 2011) [online version]

Usesthis.com: Stephen Wolfram
     (The Setup, 2010) [online version]

Big Think Interview with Stephen Wolfram
     (Big Think, 2010) [online version]

Thought Leaders: A New Kind of Search Engine
     (Forbes.com, 2010) [online version]

The Answer Man
     (Popular Science, 2009) [online version]

Thought Leaders: Finding the Fundamentals
     (Forbes.com, 2009) [online version]

Thought Leaders: Putting Business Aside
     (Forbes.com, 2009) [online version]

Thought Leaders: Stephen Wolfram's Building Blocks
     (Forbes.com, 2009) [online version]

An Interview with Stephen Wolfram
     (Technology Review, 2009) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram
     (ABC Local, 2009) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram Talks to Rudy Rucker
     (H+ Magazine, 2009) [online version]

A Conversation with Stephen Wolfram
     (Math Horizons, 2009) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram: Simple Solutions
     (BusinessWeek, 2005) [online version]

Wolfram, Stephen
     (Current Biography, 2005)

Lunch with the FT: Stephen Wolfram
     (Financial Times, 2004)

In Search of a Scientific Revolution
     (Science News, 2003) [online version]

First Person: Stephen Wolfram
     (The Scientist, 2003) [online version]

A Man Who Would Shake Up Science
     (The New York Times, 2002)

Newton, Einstein, Wolfram? (in German)
     (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2002)

Stephen Wolfram propose de revisiter les lois de l'Univers (in French)
     (Le Monde, 2002) [online version]

What Kind of Science Is This
     (Nature, 2002) [online version]

Scientist Breaks Out of the Math Box
     (Chicago Tribune, 2002)

How Everything Works
     (Time, 2002) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram's Simple Science
     (BusinessWeek, 2002) [online version]

Great Minds, Great Ideas
     (Newsweek, 2002) [online version]

The Emperor's New Theory
     (The Economist, 2002)

The Man Who Cracked the Code to Everything...
     (Wired, 2002) [online version]

Did This Man Just Rewrite Science?
     (The New York Times, 2002) [online version]

A Challenging View of the Universe
     (The Boston Globe, 2002)

The World According to Wolfram
     (American Scientist, 2002) [online version]

Cosmic Computer--New Philosophy to Explain the Universe
     (The San Francisco Chronicle, 2002)

In One Huge Volume, a Theory of All Science
     (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2002)

Complexity Made Simple
     (The New York Times Magazine, 2002) [online version]

The Code of the Cosmos
     (Los Angeles Times, 2002) [online version]

Die Bibel in der Gaswolke (in German)
     (Der Spiegel, 2002)

The Cosmic Code: Does the Universe Run on a Simple Computer Program?
     (U.S. News & World Report, 2002) [online version]

S. Wolfram: 'Une nouvelle forme de science' (in French)
     (La Recherche, 2002)

Is the Universe a Universal Computer?
     (Science, 2002) [online version]

2002 Scientist of the Year: Math, the Universe, and Stephen Wolfram
     (R&D Magazine, 2002)

Software as a Window on Nature
     (PC Magazine, 2002) [online version]

Complexity Made Simple
     (The New York Times Magazine, 2002) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram
     (NPR Talk of the Nation/Science Friday, 2002) [online version]

Principia Mathematica III
     (New Scientist, 2001) [online version]

God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else
     (Forbes ASAP, 2000) [online version]

The Universe in Black and White
     (Daily Telegraph, 1999) [online version]

A Study in Complexity
     (Technology Review, 1997) [online version]

A Math Genius Who Decided Not to Play It by the Numbers
     (Los Angeles Times, 1996) [online version]

Meet an Inventor Who Makes Complex Calculus Simple
     (The Wall Street Journal, 1996) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram: Strong Opinions
     (Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1993) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram: Multiparadigm Man
     (Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1993) [online version]

Growing Up with Your Software
     (Nature, 1991) [online version]

A Prodigy's Metamorphosis: Now He Peddles Software
     (The Scientist, 1989) [online version]

The Impatient Genius behind Mathematica
     (MacWEEK, 1988) [online version]

Physics Whiz Goes into Biz
     (Fortune, 1988) [online version]

Explorations in the Cellular Microworld
     (Computing, 1985) [online version]

Computer Recreations
     (Scientific American, 1985) [online version]

Science Digest Profile: Stephen Wolfram
     (Science Digest, 1984) [online version]

Simulating the Replication of Life
     (Nature, 1983) [online version]

Physicist Awarded 'Genius' Prize Finds Reality in Invisible World
     (The New York Times, 1981) [online version]