Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Questions include: Discussing the history of LISP - Do you know Noam Chomsky personally? - NASA became interested in sanskrit as a programming language - Why did Ludwig Boltzmann commit suicide? - What's your take\opinion on Visual Programming Languages? - How is emacs related to lisp? - Do you know Linus Torvalds? - What are the main contributions of Marvin Minsky to AI field? - In a recent Lex Fridman Podcast (#153) Dmitry Korkin talked about how Joshua Lederberg, in the 60s, used advanced ideas in AI to help NASA identify molecules which might be related to alien life. - If you had to only choose one countries mathematics that you were allowed to use which would it be. England, France or Germany? - Did you interact with James Watson or Francis Crick? - Do you apply the Monte Carlo simulation in any of your work? - Did you ever meet Konrad Zuze or study his work? - Meet any Rocket scientists? Von Braun?

History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (January 14, 2021)