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Ray Kurzweil compared to this person's behavior to Guru Amrit Desai being surrounded by the Hell's Angels. One of his more narcissistic actions is creating a summer camp dedicated to his most important publication. His creations include the program SMP and a journal called Complex Systems. One of his chief ideas is that of Computational irreducibility, and he offered a 25,000 dollar prize for proving the universal nature of a two state three color Turing machine. (*) His most controversial book argues for a study of cellular automata and is called A New Kind of Science, and his company sells one of the most popular computer algebra systems. For 10 points, name this creator of Mathematica whose name is attached to a "computational knowledge engine" called Alpha.
Ray Kurzweil compared to this person's behavior to Guru Amrit Desai being surrounded by the Hell's Angels.
Stephen Wolfram