Journal ynotds's Journal: Wolfram's New Kind of Science in NYT 1
Arguably a bit more substantive than Mathematica co-developer Theo Gray's Periodic Table Table, Stephen Wolfram has invested much of his returns from Mathematica and his considerable intellectual ability into a long anticipated 1197 page tome that provides theoretical underpinnings for the notion that seemingly complex systems may be best understood by seeing the universe as an irreducable super massively parallel computer for which the cellular automata Wolfram has long been an authority on are a useful model.
The New York Times has an article on A New Kind of Science which I received links to from two unconnected directions within hours of its publication.
I am reminded by one of them that it 'hits the bookstores on Tuesday, May 14'.
What a week it became (Score:2)
Intriguing that the link to Ray Kurzweil's review [kurzweilai.net] in the original thread still wasn't originally picked up by any moderators, whereas the same link under the review got to 5 (informative) very quickly.
While I'm waiting on Amazon to get my copy across the pond at least I'm being kept up to date on some of the progress of the ripples.
But of course it had to clash with the release of the product I've been twisting ears about for ages, Apple's Xserve [slashdot.org] which also got me to spend a bit more time at MacSlash from where I found a reference to The Register and ultimately to a recent article on Sun's NeWS [theregister.co.uk] which wasn't the kind of thing I could ignore.
Of course Attack of the Clones appeared in the same breath and after taking the crew to the midnight showing, maybe the best summary of what wasn't included was in response [slashdot.org] to a throwaway line of mine.
With all that going on, it was blink or you miss it for the death of Stephen Jay Gould [slashdot.org] and the rather special Friday night game between the Bears and the Magpies.