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History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Complexity of Prizes

I was at a conference that was put on by the Nobel Foundation in 1984. It had no particular Nobel Prize character to it, so to speak. I have set up prizes myself for specific problems and projects that I'd like to see solved. But even if you sort of consider the cases where prizes have been set up for the purpose of guiding a field, it's complicated issue.

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