Stephen Wolfram is this years winner of Wired’s tech renegade of the year award.

Wolfram spent the best part of ten years in a nocturnal existence working on ‘A new kind of Science’ which he self published because he didn’t trust peer review. If he was a painter his garret existence would be a badge of honor, but in the world of science this isolationist approach draws suspicion.

connected.telegraph.co.uk - A revolution or self indulgent hype? How top scientists view Wolfram

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