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Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British physicist, software developer, mathematician, author and businessman, known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cosmology, cellular automata, computational complexity theory, computer algebra and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. ... He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2009. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram

The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work." ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program

Wolfram Alpha (written on the webpage as Wolfram|Alpha) is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine would.[4] It was announced in March 2009 by Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009.[1] It was voted the greatest computer innovation of the year by Popular Science. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Alpha

A New Kind of Science is a book by Stephen Wolfram, published in 2002. It contains an empirical and systematic study of computational systems such as cellular automata. Wolfram calls these systems simple programs and argues that the scientific philosophy and methods appropriate for the study of simple programs are relevant to other fields of science. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science