Stephen Wolfram is a renowned British-American scientist, programmer, and businessman. Born in London in August 1959, he displayed a prodigious aptitude for science and computing at a young age. He earned his doctorate in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of 20. Wolfram pioneered complex systems research and cellular automata, authoring the influential science book "A New Kind of Science" in 2002. He’s the creator of the computational software Mathematica and the search engine Wolfram Alpha. Considered a thought leader in computation and artificial intelligence, Wolfram is the founder and CEO of the global technology company Wolfram Research.