Stephen Wolfram

Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language; author of A New Kind of Science; originator of Wolfram Physics Project; CEO of Wolfram Research

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language; author of A New Kind of Science and other books; originator of Wolfram Physics Project and Wolfram Institute; Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of more than 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. Wolfram was educated at Eton and Oxford, and received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech by age 20.