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Friday math movie: Stephen Wolfram on Computing a theory of everything

By Murray Bourne, 14 May 2011

I'm a big fan of Wolfram|Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine".

This week's movie is a TED talk by Stephen Wolfram, one of the developers of Mathematica, and Wolfram|Alpha. He outlines his aim to "democratize knowledge".

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