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Articles by Stephen Wolfram covering artificial intelligence, computational science and computational thinking, data science, education, future and historical perspectives, sciences, software design, technology, Wolfram products, more.

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246 from 24 Dec 2003 to 23 Oct 2026
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2026 10

  1. “Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful”: Ruliobiology and the Theoretical Foundations of Biological Form
  2. What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?
  3. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
  4. Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected
  5. Launching Version 15 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Built-in (Useful) AI & Lots of New Core Functionality
  6. Games between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition
  7. Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems
  8. What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliad
  9. P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A Ruliological Approach
  10. What Is Ruliology?

2025 10

  1. Instant Supercompute: Launching Wolfram Compute Services
  2. What’s Special about Life? Bulk Orchestration and the Rulial Ensemble in Biology and Beyond
  3. The Ruliology of Lambdas
  4. “I Have a Theory Too”: The Challenge and Opportunity of Avocational Science
  5. New Features Everywhere: Launching Version 14.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
  6. What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours
  7. What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton?
  8. Towards a Computational Formalization for Foundations of Medicine
  9. Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI
  10. Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics

2024 13

  1. Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant
  2. Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results & More Surprises
  3. On the Nature of Time
  4. Nestedly Recursive Functions
  5. Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next
  6. What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
  7. Yet More New Ideas and New Functions: Launching Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
  8. Ruliology of the “Forgotten” Code 10
  9. Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes
  10. When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation
  11. Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language
  12. Can AI Solve Science?
  13. The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

2023 19

  1. Observer Theory
  2. Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes
  3. How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything
  4. Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics
  5. Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
  6. Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
  7. Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
  8. LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
  9. Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm
  10. Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository
  11. The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language
  12. Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
  13. ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!
  14. Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…
  15. What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
  16. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  17. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  18. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  19. Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

2022 9

  1. The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
  2. Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳
  3. Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology
  4. Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
  5. Twenty Years Later: The Surprising Greater Implications of A New Kind of Science
  6. The Making of A New Kind of Science
  7. We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!
  8. On the Concept of Motion
  9. The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

2021 18

  1. Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
  2. The Concept of the Ruliad
  3. Celebrating a Third of a Century of Mathematica, and Looking Forward
  4. Multicomputation with Numbers: The Case of Simple Multiway Systems
  5. Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More
  6. Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science
  7. 1920, 2020 and a $20,000 Prize: Announcing the S Combinator Challenge
  8. How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?
  9. Launching Version 12.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
  10. The Problem of Distributed Consensus
  11. Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project
  12. The Wolfram Physics Project: A One-Year Update
  13. The Wolfram Physics Project: A Gallery of the First Year
  14. A Little Closer to Finding What Became of Moses Schönfinkel, Inventor of Combinators
  15. What Is Consciousness? Some New Perspectives from Our Physics Project
  16. After 100 Years, Can We Finally Crack Post’s Problem of Tag? A Story of Computational Irreducibility, and More
  17. Multiway Turing Machines
  18. Tini Veltman (1931–2021): From Assembly Language to a Nobel Prize

2020 14

  1. Launching Version 12.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: 228 New Functions and Much More…
  2. Where Did Combinators Come From? Hunting the Story of Moses Schönfinkel
  3. Combinators and the Story of Computation
  4. Combinators: A Centennial View
  5. Our Mission and the Opportunity of Artifacts from the Future
  6. Faster than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
  7. The Empirical Metamathematics of Euclid and Beyond
  8. A Burst of Physics Progress at the 2020 Wolfram Summer School
  9. Exploring Rulial Space: The Case of Turing Machines
  10. Event Horizons, Singularities and Other Exotic Spacetime Phenomena
  11. The Wolfram Physics Project: The First Two Weeks
  12. Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and It’s Beautiful
  13. How We Got Here: The Backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project
  14. In Less Than a Year, So Much New: Launching Version 12.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

2019 18

  1. The New World of Notebook Publishing
  2. Just Published: Adventures of a Computational Explorer
  3. Announcing the Rule 30 Prizes
  4. The Ease of Wolfram|Alpha, the Power of Mathematica: Introducing Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition
  5. A Book from Alan Turing… and a Mysterious Piece of Paper
  6. Fifty Years of Mentoring
  7. Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
  8. Testifying at the Senate about A.I.-Selected Content on the Internet
  9. My Part in an Origin Story: The Launching of the Santa Fe Institute
  10. A Few Thoughts about Deep Fakes
  11. The Wolfram Function Repository: Launching an Open Platform for Extending the Wolfram Language
  12. Remembering Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019), Inventor of Quarks
  13. Launching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
  14. Wolfram|Alpha at 10
  15. What We’ve Built Is a Computational Language (and That’s Very Important!)
  16. A World Run with Code
  17. Version 12 Launches Today! (And It’s a Big Jump for Wolfram Language and Mathematica)
  18. Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

2018 8

  1. The Story of Spikey
  2. Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding
  3. We’ve Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet!)
  4. Launching the Wolfram Challenges Site
  5. Learning about the Future from 2001: A Space Odyssey , Fifty Years Later
  6. Buzzword Convergence: Making Sense of Quantum Neural Blockchain AI
  7. Roaring into 2018 with Another Big Release: Launching Version 11.3 of the Wolfram Language & Mathematica
  8. Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization

2017 13

  1. What Do I Do All Day? Livestreamed Technology CEOing
  2. What Is a Computational Essay?
  3. Are All Fish the Same Shape if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth and Form
  4. It’s Another Impressive Release! Launching Version 11.2 Today
  5. When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillenium Tale of Computation
  6. High-School Summer Camp: A Two-Week Path to Computational Thinking
  7. The Practical Business of Ontology: A Tale from the Front Lines
  8. Oh My Gosh, It’s Covered in Rule 30s!
  9. A New Kind of Science : A 15-Year View
  10. Machine Learning for Middle Schoolers
  11. Launching the Wolfram Data Repository: Data Publishing that Really Works
  12. The R&D Pipeline Continues: Launching Version 11.1
  13. Two Hours of Experimental Mathematics

2016 15

  1. Launching Wolfram|Alpha Open Code
  2. Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?
  3. A Short Talk on AI Ethics
  4. Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse and the AI Constitution
  5. How to Teach Computational Thinking
  6. Today We Launch Version 11!
  7. Idea Makers : A Book about Lives & Ideas
  8. Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)
  9. Something I Learned in Kindergarten
  10. Who Was Ramanujan?
  11. My Life in Technology—As Told at the Computer History Museum
  12. Black Hole Tech?
  13. Launching the Wolfram Open Cloud: Open Access to the Wolfram Language
  14. Farewell, Marvin Minsky (1927–2016)
  15. Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab

2015 11

  1. Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace
  2. I Wrote a Book—To Teach the Wolfram Language
  3. What Is Spacetime, Really?
  4. How Should We Talk to AIs?
  5. George Boole: A 200-Year View
  6. Wolfram Language Artificial Intelligence: The Image Identification Project
  7. Instant Apps for the Apple Watch with the Wolfram Language
  8. Scientific Bug Hunting in the Cloud: An Unexpected CEO Adventure
  9. Frontiers of Computational Thinking: A SXSW Report
  10. Pi or Pie?! Celebrating Pi Day of the Century (And How to Get Your Very Own Piece of Pi)
  11. The Wolfram Data Drop Is Live!

2014 10

  1. Introducing Tweet-a-Program
  2. Launching Today: Mathematica Online!
  3. Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics
  4. Entrepreneurism of Ideas: An Education Adventure
  5. Launching Mathematica 10—with 700+ New Functions and a Crazy Amount of R&D
  6. Wolfram Programming Cloud Is Live!
  7. A Speech for (High-School) Graduates
  8. Injecting Computation Everywhere–A SXSW Update
  9. Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language
  10. Launching the Wolfram Connected Devices Project

2013 9

  1. “Happy Holidays”, the Wolfram Language Way
  2. Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica ) on Every Raspberry Pi
  3. Something Very Big Is Coming: Our Most Important Technology Project Yet
  4. Celebrating Mathematica ’s First Quarter Century
  5. There Was a Time before Mathematica …
  6. Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz
  7. Data Science of the Facebook World
  8. Talking about the Computational Future at SXSW 2013
  9. What Should We Call the Language of Mathematica ?

2012 18

  1. Remembering Richard Crandall (1947–2012)
  2. Welcome, National Museum of Mathematics
  3. “What Are You Going to Do Next?” Introducing the Predictive Interface
  4. Mathematica 9 Is Released Today!
  5. Latest Perspectives on the Computation Age
  6. Kids, Arduinos and Quadricopters
  7. Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
  8. A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story?
  9. Happy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing
  10. Announcing Wolfram SystemModeler
  11. Looking to the Future of A New Kind of Science
  12. Living a Paradigm Shift: Looking Back on Reactions to A New Kind of Science
  13. It’s Been 10 Years: What’s Happened with A New Kind of Science ?
  14. Overcoming Artificial Stupidity
  15. The Personal Analytics of My Life
  16. Launching a Democratization of Data Science
  17. Announcing Wolfram|Alpha Pro
  18. A .data Top-Level Internet Domain?

2011 15

  1. Imagining the Future with A New Kind of Science
  2. The Background and Vision of Mathematica
  3. Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
  4. Scaling Up the Wolfram|Alpha Project
  5. Advance of the Data Civilization: A Timeline
  6. Wolfram|Alpha Comes Alive with CDF
  7. Music, Mathematica , and the Computational Universe
  8. A Precociousness Record (Almost) Broken
  9. Talking about Computing and Philosophy
  10. Wolfram|Alpha: The Second Anniversary
  11. Computation and the Future of Biomedicine
  12. Launching a New Era in Large-Scale Systems Modeling
  13. Jeopardy , IBM, and Wolfram|Alpha
  14. Knowledge-Based Computing and Version 2.0 of the Wolfram|Alpha API
  15. An App for Every Course, and More

2010 13

  1. Touch Press: The Second Book
  2. 100 Years Since Principia Mathematica
  3. Programming with Natural Language Is Actually Going to Work
  4. The Free-Form Linguistics Revolution in Mathematica
  5. Mathematica 8!
  6. State of Wolfram Technology 2010
  7. The Poetry of Function Naming
  8. “The Emerging Computation Revolution”–A Talk
  9. Making the World’s Data Computable
  10. A New Kind of Science is on the iPad!
  11. Welcome to the Blog
  12. Announcing the Wolfram Data Summit
  13. Wolfram|Alpha: The First Year

2009 5

  1. What We’ve Been Doing This Summer
  2. The First Week of Wolfram|Alpha: Thank You!
  3. Wolfram|Alpha Is Launching: Made Possible by Mathematica
  4. 7 years of NKS—and its first killer app
  5. Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!

2008 4

  1. Surprise! Mathematica 7.0 Released Today!
  2. Russell Towle: 1949–2008
  3. Mathematica Turns 20 Today
  4. Ten Thousand Hours of Design Reviews

2007 9

  1. Mathematics, Mathematica and Certainty
  2. Simple Turing Machines, Universality, Encodings, etc.
  3. The Prize Is Won; The Simplest Universal Turing Machine Is Proved
  4. My Hobby: Hunting for Our Universe
  5. The Space of All Possible Bridge Shapes
  6. Science: Live and in Public
  7. Today We Put a Prize on a Small Turing Machine
  8. Five Years of A New Kind of Science
  9. Today, Mathematica Is Reinvented

2006 1

  1. Kurt Gödel’s 100th Birthday

2004 2

  1. NKS: Two Years Later
  2. Long-Range Cellular Automata

2003 2

  1. John von Neumann’s 100th Birthday
  2. Cellular Automata from Christmas 1983