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