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Computing a theory of all knowledge

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

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Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Join the quest to compute everything — try the Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine for yourself.

Sign up for Wolfram Alpha's Facebook Analytics project to see personalized visualizations of your activity on the social network.

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Stephen Wolfram

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Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, the author of A New Kind of Science, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research.

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