Stephen WolframInterview
Scientist, developer, mathematician
Adapted from Stephen Wolfram's interview on Uses This, published 17 August 2010. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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Around my house, I just switched to using a 15" MacBook Pro as my portable computer.
(I was recently on a vacation that involved some beach time with direct sunlight, during which I used a Kindle -- in a plastic bag to avoid the sand.)
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My current desktop system is a Windows 7 64-bit 8-core machine with two large displays, arranged so they don't obstruct the nice view out of my office windows.
Occasionally, I'll connect to one of the large compute clusters we have at our company, and use gridMathematica there.
Within our company, we've built lots of custom internal utilities, often based on Mathematica and webMathematica.