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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.)

 

Rackspace & Robert Scoble LIVE @ SXSW: An Interview with Stephen Wolfram
     (Rackspace, 2013) [online version]

Science and a New Kind of Prediction: An Interview with Stephen Wolfram
     (The Futurist, 2013) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram's Controversial Information Revolution (in Hebrew)
     (Haaretz Magazine, 2012) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram Talks about Wolfram Alpha, Google and Steve Jobs
     (The Australian, 2012) [video]

Higgs Boson: Is That All There Is?
     (The Mark News, 2012) [online version]

Stephen Wolfram, el Fisico al que Copian Todos (in Spanish)
     (EL PAÍS, 2012) [online version]

5 Things I Learned about the Future from Stephen Wolfram
     (ReadWriteWeb, 2012) [online version]

The Computational Quantified Self: A Q&A with Stephen Wolfram
     (Quantified Self, 2012) [online version]

Ma Vie en Statistiques (in French)
     (Le Temps, 2012) [online version]

SXSW Watch: Wolfram on Wolfram Alpha
     (Time Techland, 2012) [online version]

Forget Google Instant: In the Future, Search Engines Will Read Your Habits
     (Mashable, 2012) [online version]

What 23 Years of E-Mail May Say About You
     (The New York Times, 2012) [online version]

Interview with Dr Stephen Wolfram
     (Linux Journal, 2012) [online version]

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) [video]

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) [video]

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

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

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

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

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

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]

A Dialogue on Intelligence: Rudy Rucker and Stephen Wolfram
     (Collected Essays, 2006) [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]

Cosmic Computer—New Philosophy to Explain the Universe
     (San Francisco Chronicle, 2002) [online version]

A Challenging View of the Universe—Scientist's Tome Draws Notice, Critics
     (The Boston Globe, 2002) [online version]

A Man Who Would Shake Up Science
     (The New York Times, 2002) [online version]

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) [online version]

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]

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

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

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

Stephen Wolfram
     (NPR Talk of the Nation/Science Friday, 2002)

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
     (R&D Magazine, 2002) [online version]

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

Complexity Made Simple
     (The New York Times Magazine, 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]