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Stephen Wolfram

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Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist and businessman who works in computer algebra and theoretical physics; he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. As a businessman, Wolfram is the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research, where he works as chief designer of the Mathematica computation system and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1959 1
Birth Date
1959-08-29 2
Award
Friedrich L. Bauer Prize 1
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MacArthur Fellows Program 1
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1
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Fellow of the American Mathematical Society 1
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Source Wikipedia: Stephen Wolfram

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Source Wikidata: Wolfram Language

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1. Wikidata: Stephen Wolfram
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2. Wikipedia: Stephen Wolfram
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    born 29 August 1959
  • In Field: Computer Algebra, Lead paragraph
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Wikidata: Wolfram Language
Invented: Wolfram LanguageView the Source
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