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This document appears to be a page from a book (page 181) included in House Oversight evidence (likely regarding Jeffrey Epstein's connections to scientists via John Brockman). The text serves as an introduction to an essay by Stephen Wolfram. The narrator (founder of Edge.org/The Reality Club) recounts meeting Wolfram in the early 1980s when Wolfram spoke at the first Reality Club meeting in NYC, and describes a recent meeting in Cambridge, MA, recorded for Edge.org.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Stephen Wolfram | Subject / Scientist |
Described as a pioneer in computational thinking, founder of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and an early speaker at T...
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| Narrator (Implicitly John Brockman) | Author / Organizer |
The person writing the text, who established The Reality Club and Edge.org. (Note: While not named on this specific p...
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Organizations (4)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| The Reality Club |
An informal gathering of intellectuals established by the narrator in NYC.
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| Edge.org |
The online version of The Reality Club, launched in 1996.
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| Institute for Advanced Study |
Institution in Princeton where Wolfram arrived as a 'wunderkind'.
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| Wolfram|Alpha |
Computational knowledge engine created by Stephen Wolfram.
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Timeline (2 events)
Circa 1982
First Reality Club meeting featuring Stephen Wolfram as the speaker.
Narrator's living room, New York City
Four years prior to document date
Meeting and video recording for Edge.org regarding AI.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Stephen Wolfram
Narrator
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Location where The Reality Club met.
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Location of the Institute for Advanced Study.
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Location of a meeting between the narrator and Wolfram 'four years ago'.
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Specific location of the first Reality Club meeting.
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Relationships (1)
Narrator hosted Wolfram at The Reality Club in the 1980s and interviewed him for Edge.org recently.
Key Quotes (3)
"Our first speaker? Stephen Wolfram, a 'wunderkind' who had arrived in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study."Source
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"I distinctly recall his focused manner as he sat down on a couch in my living room and spoke uninterrupted for about an hour before the assembled group."Source
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"Stephen walked in, said hello, sat down, and, looking at the video camera set up to record the conversation for Edge, began to talk and didn’t stop for two and a half hours."Source
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Over nearly four decades, Stephen Wolfram has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking and responsible for many innovations in science, technology and business.
His 1982 paper “Cellular Automata as Simple Self-Organizing Systems,” written at the age of twenty-three, was the first of numerous significant scientific contributions aimed at understanding the origins of complexity in nature.
It was around this time that Stephen briefly came into my life. I had established The Reality Club, an informal gathering of intellectuals who met in New York City to present their work before peers in other disciplines. (Note: In 1996, The Reality Club went online as Edge.org). Our first speaker? Stephen Wolfram, a “wunderkind” who had arrived in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study. I distinctly recall his focused manner as he sat down on a couch in my living room and spoke uninterrupted for about an hour before the assembled group.
Since that time, Stephen has become intent making the world’s knowledge easily computable and accessible. His program Mathematica is the definitive system for modern technical computing. Wolfram|Alpha computes expert-level answers using AI technology. He considers his Wolfram Language to be the first true computational communication language for humans and AIs.
I caught up with him again four years ago, when we arranged to meet in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a freewheeling conversation about AI. Stephen walked in, said hello, sat down, and, looking at the video camera set up to record the conversation for Edge, began to talk and didn’t stop for two and a half hours.
The essay that follows is an edited version of that session, which was a Wolfram master class of sorts and is an appropriate way to end this volume—just as Stephen’s Reality Club talk in the ’80s was a great way to initiate the ongoing intellectual enterprise whose result is the rich community of thinkers presenting their work to one another and to the public in this book.
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