History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (February 10, 2021)

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Any stories about your work for Thinking Machines? - ​c/c++ have # omp parallel for loop parallelization, but there's nothing quite for distributed variable storage - Have you seen those Combinator Graph reduction Machines? - Have you read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", "What Do Care What Other People Think?" and/or "Tuva or Bust!"? - nowadays every modern computer has a connection machine, in the form of a GPU - f course Stephen knows the person who started the internet archive haha! - Were there applications for the connection machine which used the interconnections? I think e.g. fluid dynamic is easy to implement with the vector computation of GPUs, only local neighbors

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Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business. On his podcast, Stephen discusses topics ranging from the history of science to the future of civilization and ethics of AI.