{"id":12322,"date":"2016-03-12T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T18:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12322"},"modified":"2016-03-16T20:16:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T00:16:24","slug":"video-stephen-wolfram-talks-about-seti-and-the-computational-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12322","title":{"rendered":"Video: Stephen Wolfram talks about &#8220;SETI and the Computational Universe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a\u00a0video of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Wolfram\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Wolfram&#8217;<\/a>s recent\u00a0SETI Institute seminar:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/weeky-lecture\/seti-and-computational-universe\" target=\"_d\">SETI and the Computational Universe &#8211;\u00a0SETI Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Dr Stephen Wolfram, founder &amp; CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfram Research<\/a>, and creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/mathematica\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfram|Alpha<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/language\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfram Language<\/a> will come to the SETI Institute to discuss his latest thinking about the relation between searching for complex behavior in the computational universe of simple programs, using this in creating AI, and searching for intelligence elsewhere in our physical universe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Re9eB_j6m-0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a\u00a0video of\u00a0Stephen Wolfram&#8217;s recent\u00a0SETI Institute seminar:\u00a0SETI and the Computational Universe &#8211;\u00a0SETI Institute Dr Stephen Wolfram, founder &amp; CEO of Wolfram Research, and creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language will come to the SETI Institute to discuss his latest thinking about the relation between searching for complex behavior in the computational universe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Stephen Wolfram talks about &#8220;SETI and the Computational Universe&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seti","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3cK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12841,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12841","url_meta":{"origin":12322,"position":0},"title":"Video: The SETI Institute and the search for life beyond earth","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"SETI Institute CEO Bill Diamond talks about the history, science, mission and future direction of the Institute in this video:\u00a0QUEST! 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