Stephen Wolfram is a physicist-turned-entrepreneur whose pioneering work in cellular automata, computational irreducibility, and symbolic knowledge systems fundamentally reshaped our understanding of complexity. His theoretical breakthroughs led to successful commercial products, Wolfram Alpha and Wolfram Language.[^1] [^1]: [Stop Deploying AI. Start Designing Intelligence](https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/stop-deploying-ai-start-designing-intelligence/?cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3&cx_experienceId=EXCTJV2LS00O&cx_experienceActionId=showRecommendationsMW5PLSZG4PJI15#cxrecs_s)