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Unless, that is, the author is Stephen Wolfram. Back in the 1980s, Wolfram was one of the hottest young scientists around. He got his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1979 at the astonishing age of 20. A year later, he became the youngest person ever to receive a so-called genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He went on to write a scientific computing program called Mathematica that was so successful it made him a millionaire many times over. And then he dropped out of public view. What ever happened, people wondered, to Stephen Wolfram...
...come out in the open was meeting Fred Adams, an astrophysicist at University of Michigan who was writing a popular book and encouraged me to do the same about time travel. As I researched for that book, I discovered dozens of papers written by colleagues at Princeton, Caltech and elsewhere. This made me more comfortable to pursue my research, for I knew that there were other academics who supported the idea...
...year-old and thought more about girls than genes. It is as much a tale of love as of ideas.” Quite an understatement there. Watson reports that there was “only one secretary to stare at” at the coffeehouse on the Caltech campus, that Pasadena “had the highest concentration of women over 60 than any other American city,” that Rachel Morgan’s statement that he “could never be important in her life” caused many sleepless nights. The names of Watson?...
...Steve Ansolabehere: It was a mix of reasons, really. The people involved in the study all have different concerns. But the immediate initiative behind the study was that David Baltimore at Caltech was pretty engrossed in the recount efforts and felt there were problems with the technology...
...while voting irregularities in the Sunshine State may have garnered the bulk of our attention during those strange days, ballot problems weren?t specific to Florida. According to a new study by social scientists at MIT and Caltech, as many as four to six million votes were lost in the 2000 presidential election, all thanks to voting machine problems, ballot confusion, lost absentee votes and failed voter registration...