Stephen Wolfram Livestreams

UPCOMING: JULY 23, 2021 @ 3:30PM ET

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) »

SPECIAL EVENT: OCTOBER 12, 2021 @ 5PM CT

Wolfram Technology Conference 2021 Keynote Address »

Live
CEOing

Behind the scenes in real-life software design

Science &
Technology Q&A for Kids & Others

Weekly ask-me-anything about science & technology

History of Science & Technology Q&A

Biweekly ask-me-anything about the history of science & technology

Business &
Innovation Q&A for Young Entrepreneurs & Others

Biweekly ask-me-anything about business & innovation

Physics Project
Working Sessions

Behind the scenes in frontline science research

Personal Video
Worklogs

Raw recordings of work getting done

Public &
Special Events

Timely explorations, special events & public addresses

Podcasts

Curated audio versions of Q&As, events, publications, etc.

Recent Livestreams

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Part 55] »

1 hour 4 minutes

✕ close

Question(s):

Is doing science something intrinsic to the human species, so that if humanity were to be restarted, science would emerge afresh?

Can Wolfram talk about pseudo linear congruential random number generators?

Stephen, do you think that we as parents should control how much time our kids spent on computers and smartphones?

Is it possible to have "many internets" - internet outside of this current internet?

Will nations be able enforce firewall if someone is connecting to Starlink?

What's your vision for the future and how do your current students fit into that vision?

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Part 54] »

1 hour 29 minutes

✕ close

Question(s):

Is there possible for there to be a different world or civilization deep in the oceans that we do not know about?

What do you think about civilization going to Mars?

Why do the planets orbit in the same plane?

Are Phobos and Diemos also on the same plane? Considering they're asteroids that were grabbed by Mars and now orbit Mars.

What makes a planet a planet?

Why do most planets, stars and galaxies seem to spin the same way?

What did NASA do to avoid astronauts getting great amounts of cosmic rays?

How exactly do you detect Muons? I'm going to be taking a class next year that has a big fun project at the end of the semester that includes potentially making something that detects Muons.

Why is water a good radiation shield if it has low atomic numbers inside?

Why does an iron core result in a super nova?

How do nuclear blasts affect computers?

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Part 53] »

51 minutes

✕ close

Question(s):

Hi Stephen, why does the universe exist? In a recent interview you said that you have been considering this over the past month.

When was the last time you weren't the smartest person in the room?

If all knowledge about physics was be lost, which theory would be most difficult to rediscover in your opinion and why?

Wolfram|Alpha uses a curated knowledge graph? Rather than some Wikipedia crowdsourced approach, you had a bunch of people in an office authoring a lot of data for it? Or does it draw from other databases?

Kids and teenagers are less and less interested by mathematics, what do you think is the reason of this? How would you change it?

Live CEOing #474:

Publishing your Wolfram Language Code »

with Stephen Wolfram | 54 minutes

✕ close

Live CEOing #473:

Language Design in Wolfram Language [DateSetter & TimeSetter] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 53 minutes

✕ close

History of Science & Technology Q&A:

History of Science and Technology Q&A (June 15, 2021) »

1 hour 8 minutes

✕ close

Question(s):

How was DNA discovered? The history behind its discovery?

Is there a history of musical digital instruments? Like the synth seems to me the beginning of exploration of "computational music". Maybe electronic music should be called that way....

Can you build a cellular automata for each sound font? how does one construct the CA in general to map onto functions like sine or wave forms?

Is science slowly becoming a meme, considering how strongly supported the theory has been of natural origin of COVID-19 by the so-called scientific community? It appears, a scientist's opinion is more and more becoming a product.

Question: There was, and seem to be still today, a very discriminating and political approach in the world of science when someone tried to present another or different ways of approaching something. What are your thoughts on how we can improve those "strict/closed" science groups to support a broader and more "open minded" philosophy?

Did summer school and incubator programs exist hundreds of years ago?

Do you think the relationship between the scientific community and media/business/government is fundamentally different today or pretty close to what we've seen in the (typical ebb & flow) past many decades/century?

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Part 52] »

1 hour 15 minutes

✕ close

Question(s):

How can I experiment with multiway hypergraphs in areas other than physics as a hobbyist computational explorer? I am interested in information science but have not taken computer science yet.

How can one convince the scientific community they have inadvertently accepted a false result, when the bug is subtle?

Can a virus mutate and replicate again and again in your own body while the immune system is fighting it? And every time the immune system figures out one form of it and kills it, there is already a new form replicating? A viral cat'n'mouse game, so to speak..

Do you think that there could be some low-hanging fruit to be collected in biology? I feel like all the smartest people chose to study physics or math and I wonder if more should go into biology.

What techniques do you use to memorise information when studying in such broad fields? Thank You!

Do you have any opinions to why "Mars One" failed? They went bankrupt in 2019. Mars One had a massive recruitment drive since 2012'ish for people to go and colonise to Mars by 2023.

How do we know that gravity is not a "pushing force" instead of a pulling force? Do we for certain know that "dark matter" is not caused by shielding of this pushing force. --"Dark matter" being an artifact in this case and not a real thing*

If time stops in a black hole, does that mean all matter in the black hole stops aging?

Why do we need to super-cool materials (for superconductors or quantum systems); why can't we drive them mechanically at set frequency, so "cool" them preferntially in one direction?

What is the difference between science and technology and how do they complement each other?

Live CEOing #472:

Expositions in the Wolfram Language »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 13 minutes

✕ close

Business & Innovation Q&A for Young Entrepreneurs & Others:

Business & Innovation Q&A for Young Entrepreneurs & Others (June 9, 2021) »

1 hour 29 minutes

✕ close

Question(s):

How do you maintain the work-life balance? How do you decide what is more important the meeting or the gym training?

Could you list all of apps and big app projects u ever made? With brief descriptions.

How do you decide your employees' compensation?

Why were you a physics prodigy? Did you just fall in love with the subject? Did someone encourage you?

How can venture capitalists identify the most talented young entrepreneurs?

What do you recommend for obtaining funding for your new business?

How to gain internal confidence and believe that what you do is right?

Does Wolfram handle its own cybersecurity or use third party MSP?

I have many questions. Do you automate testing? Do you group clients? How? Do you test UX? How? How would you connect CRM to the model of everything?

What is better Kanban or Scrum?

How do you work with executives when your job relies on long term thinking and investing (ex. cybersecurity)?

Would have a question for Mr. Wolfram, how did you overcome the hurdles of being a solo founder?

Another cybersecurity question: how do you address the risk of supply chain attacks since your language is used by other companies?

This is probably an undetermined question, but a friend of mine is starting a company in the healthcare software space and he wants me to leave my PhD program and help him cofound the company. What are the criteria that you would use to judge (the company idea, the grad school, and others) to evaluate this decision?

Live CEOing #471:

Language Design in Wolfram Language [Arrays, Limiting Echo, WFR Review & More] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 14 minutes

✕ close

Physics Project Working Sessions:

Working Session with Q&A (June 8, 2021) »

with Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Gorard | 2 hours 24 minutes

✕ close

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Part 51] »

1 hour 16 minutes

✕ close

Question(s):

Can you define "scientific method" ?

What is a double blind randomized control trial?

What caused the split between the evolutionary paths of plant life and animal life?

Why haven't any animals evolved to be the same size as large dinosaurs? For example, the T-Rex and Brontosaurus were massive creatures.

I'm only 12 but how do you deal with detractors, I hear some things about you, it does sound like jealousy if I'm honest, but regardless, how do you continue on your path and disregard the critics?

View More Back to Top