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id="posts" class="grid heirs-width-1-2 heirs-width-full__600"> <div class="project advice" data-position="normal" data-date="2009-08-31 17:34:54"> <p class="date">August 31, 2009</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/dr-stephen-wolfram-wolframalpha-mathematica-a-new-kind-of-science.62790' target='_blank'>Interview by Kaustubh Katdare, <em>CrazyEngineers</em></a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2009/08/31/what-are-your-expectations-from-todays-scientists-and-engineers/">What are your expectations from today’s scientists and engineers?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>Make sure you always know the best tools. Keep learning. Don&#8217;t get stuck in some particular niche. The most exciting things are usually happening at the boundaries, where you need to know about several different kinds of things.</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="Make sure you always know the best tools. Keep learning. Don&#8217;t get stuck in some particular niche. The most exciting things are usually happening at the boundaries, where you need to know about several different kinds of things."> Make sure you always know the best tools. Keep learning. Don’t get stuck in some particular niche. The most exciting things are usually happening at the boundaries, where you need to know about several different kinds of things. </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice education" data-position="normal" data-date="2012-05-14 14:44:35"> <p class="date">May 14, 2012</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/tmutz/stephen_wolfram_nks_10th_anniversary/c4nzusn/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2012/05/14/many-students-struggle-with-basic-calculus-what-is-your-advice-to-students-who-rely-on-programs-like-your-wolframalpha-engine-to-get-themselves-through-math-c/">Many students struggle with basic calculus. What is your advice to students who rely on programs like your Wolfram|Alpha engine to get themselves through math courses? Do you think it’s ethical for students to rely on such programs to pass their courses?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>I&#8217;ve been using computers to do math for more than 30 years now. For me, the important thing is that by using computers I was always able to do many more examples&#8230; from which I could get an intuition about how the math should work out. And once one can guess from intuition how a problem should work out, it&#8217;s much easier to get the right answer when one does it by hand. Nowadays I find it pretty cool when I see people working out math by hand&#8230; it&#8217;s like &#8220;can humans really do that stuff?&#8221;</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="I&#8217;ve been using computers to do math for more than 30 years now. For me, the important thing is that by using computers I was always able to do many more examples&#8230; from which I could get an intuition about how the math should work out. And once one can guess from intuition how a problem should work out, <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> I’ve been using computers to do math for more than 30 years now. For me, the important thing is that by using computers I was always able to do many more examples… from which I could get an intuition about how the math should work out. And once one can guess from intuition how a problem should work out, <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> <a class="tag" data-tag="education" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=education">Education</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice education" data-position="normal" data-date="2012-05-14 15:00:21"> <p class="date">May 14, 2012</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/tmutz/stephen_wolfram_nks_10th_anniversary/c4nyuc5/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2012/05/14/what-do-you-recommend-for-current-students-who-are-interested-in-stem-careers-and-want-to-make-a-difference/">What do you recommend for current students who are interested in STEM careers, and want to make a difference?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>I&#8217;m a huge believer in people doing projects they care about. Learn the basics. Learn the best tools. Then try doing projects. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m suitably unbiased in this, but I have to say that I think learning Mathematica is a really good start. It depends on your detailed interests, but I certainly think NKS is a really interesting area that connects to a huge number of things. And what&#8217;s great about it is that it&#8217;s such a new field that it&#8217;s still very easy to make interesting discoveries in it. A general piece of advice about careers is to pick an area that&#8217;s small and young now, but you think is going to expand. We&#8217;re thinking of doing more directly in education, particularly emphasizing projects. Two initiatives we have are: <a href='https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/'>https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/</a> and <a href='https://education.wolfram.com/summer/camp/programs/overview/'>https://education.wolfram.com/summer/camp/programs/overview/</a> Another direction is: <a href='https://www.computerbasedmath.org/'>https://www.computerbasedmath.org/</a></p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="I&#8217;m a huge believer in people doing projects they care about. Learn the basics. Learn the best tools. Then try doing projects. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m suitably unbiased in this, but I have to say that I think learning Mathematica is a really good start. It depends on your detailed interests, <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> I’m a huge believer in people doing projects they care about. Learn the basics. Learn the best tools. Then try doing projects. I’m not sure if I’m suitably unbiased in this, but I have to say that I think learning Mathematica is a really good start. It depends on your detailed interests, <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> <a class="tag" data-tag="education" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=education">Education</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice" data-position="normal" data-date="2012-05-14 20:46:46"> <p class="date">May 14, 2012</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/tmutz/stephen_wolfram_nks_10th_anniversary/c4nyzpc/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2012/05/14/what-are-in-your-opinion-the-most-important-skills-mental-and-practical-for-being-able-to-hold-a-job-at-wolfram-research/">What are, in your opinion, the most important skills (mental and practical) for being able to hold a job at Wolfram Research?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>Being smart, and being able to apply your intelligence with good common sense to a range of different issues. Communicating clearly, and interacting well with people. Being able to understand things quickly, get started quickly&#8230; but get things finished, at very high quality with great attention to details.</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="Being smart, and being able to apply your intelligence with good common sense to a range of different issues. Communicating clearly, and interacting well with people. Being able to understand things quickly, get started quickly&#8230; but get things finished, at very high quality with great attention to details."> Being smart, and being able to apply your intelligence with good common sense to a range of different issues. Communicating clearly, and interacting well with people. Being able to understand things quickly, get started quickly… but get things finished, at very high quality with great attention to details. </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice education" data-position="normal" data-date="2016-02-23 20:53:29"> <p class="date">February 23, 2016</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/478njk/im_stephen_wolframask_me_anything/d0b54zk/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2016/02/23/what-is-the-one-thing-any-student-must-try-in-college/">What is the one thing any student must try in college?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>Hmmmm&#8230; I myself was only in college for about a year (in Oxford, long long ago) &#8230; and I spent most of my time in an underground computer room where I had access to the ARPANET, doing physics research. So I don&#8217;t have much to say from personal experience.</p> <p>In today&#8217;s world, the obvious point is to learn about things that will be important in the future. One trend I&#8217;ve noticed is that eventually there&#8217;s a field called &#8220;computational X&#8221; for all X (X = agriculture, archaeology, &#8230; , zoology) &#8230; which is a way of saying that computation and computational thinking are going to be important in pretty much anything people want to do. So it&#8217;s a really good idea to get familiar with that &#8230; and, needless to say, I&#8217;ve spent years building tools to make that easy for people. The most recent development is Wolfram Programming Lab, which you can use on the web at <a href='https://www.wolfram.com/programming-lab/'>https://www.wolfram.com/programming-lab/</a></p> <p>I myself have always found it useful to learn as much as possible about as many things as possible &#8230; and college at least should be a good place to do that. Even if you&#8217;re a techie, don&#8217;t forget the humanities. Long after the latest fad in software development, or the latest JavaScript framework, is long forgotten, people will still be reading Plato, and learning useful things from doing so&#8230;.</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="Hmmmm&#8230; I myself was only in college for about a year (in Oxford, long long ago) &#8230; and I spent most of my time in an underground computer room where I had access to the ARPANET, doing physics research. So I don&#8217;t have much to say from personal experience. In today&#8217;s world, <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> Hmmmm… I myself was only in college for about a year (in Oxford, long long ago) … and I spent most of my time in an underground computer room where I had access to the ARPANET, doing physics research. So I don’t have much to say from personal experience. In today’s world, <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> <a class="tag" data-tag="education" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=education">Education</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice" data-position="normal" data-date="2016-02-23 21:01:30"> <p class="date">February 23, 2016</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/478njk/im_stephen_wolframask_me_anything/d0b1rxo/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2016/02/23/how-do-you-promote-creativity-inside-your-developer-community/">How do you promote creativity inside your developer community?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>First, I hope, by providing tools that make it easy to be creative. I&#8217;m a big believer in the idea that languages help define what one can think about &#8230; and I hope the Wolfram Language lets people think creatively about a lot of things.</p> <p>At least within our company, I like to try to lead by example. It&#8217;s a bad day when I haven&#8217;t had at least one idea that I think is decently good. For years now, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of my time around the company &#8220;thinking in public&#8221;&#8212;i.e. being on conference calls when I&#8217;m actually figuring stuff out, so other people can (a) see why we decided to do something, and (b) get the idea that they can figure things out too. (Also, of course, it&#8217;s really great to get other peoples&#8217; input when I&#8217;m trying to figure things out.)</p> <p>Outside the company, we try to have good venues for people to talk about what they&#8217;re figuring out, e.g. <a href='https://community.wolfram.com/'>https://community.wolfram.com/</a> And for the past 14 years we have our Summer School (<a href='https://education.wolfram.com/summer'>https://education.wolfram.com/summer</a>), where I and others communicate some of what we&#8217;ve learned about getting creative things done&#8230;</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="First, I hope, by providing tools that make it easy to be creative. I&#8217;m a big believer in the idea that languages help define what one can think about &#8230; and I hope the Wolfram Language lets people think creatively about a lot of things. At least within our company, I like to try to lead by example. <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> First, I hope, by providing tools that make it easy to be creative. I’m a big believer in the idea that languages help define what one can think about … and I hope the Wolfram Language lets people think creatively about a lot of things. At least within our company, I like to try to lead by example. <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice" data-position="normal" data-date="2018-08-23 20:43:57"> <p class="date">August 23, 2018</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.human-current.com/episode-101-a-journey-of-computational-complexity-with-stephen-wolfram' target='_blank'>Interview by Haley Campbell-Gross, <em>Human Current</em></a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2018/08/23/what-would-be-your-advice-for-a-young-complexity-thinker-who-just-wants-to-dive-into-this-field/">What would be your advice for a young complexity thinker who just wants to dive into this field?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>Well one piece of advice that might sound self-serving, but it isn&#8217;t in a sense is that I spent a lot of time building tools that I think are really well optimized to actually explore many questions. But among them, questions and complexity the whole Wolfram Language stack is really well optimized for these kinds of explorations. Learn it as well as possible.</p> <p>It&#8217;s always been surprising to me in my life because I make a point of learning tools, building tools if I don&#8217;t think they exist, and you know I see people who are like oh well you know it&#8217;s good enough for me to just do this and this and this. It&#8217;s like no you&#8217;re almost certainly wrong you know for example when I worked on <em>A New Kind of Science</em> which was as I say took me ten and a half years to work on this book at a very slow rate because I was figuring out everything that was in the book. But you know I try to figure out. If I hadn&#8217;t built Wolfram Language or Mathematica first would I have finished the whole project sooner or later? My very clear conclusion was I wouldn&#8217;t have finished that project in my lifetime. </p> <p>In other words, even though it took me five years roughly to build the first version of those tools. Building those tools accelerated getting the project done by at least thirty years and so it&#8217;s kind of the main advice which people are surprisingly bad at taking is learn the best tools you can. You know I&#8217;ve spent a lot of effort building these tools very well optimized for this particular purpose. So, it&#8217;s kind of, silly not to use those tools and as a practical matter, you can even get them free everywhere pretty much at all the universities and even on the web and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.</p> <p>So, it&#8217;s kind of, like the only excuse is, well I can&#8217;t be bothered to learn it. One of the things for me that&#8217;s interesting is I&#8217;ve been teaching Wolfram Language a bunch to kids. Turns out by the time the middle school kids can get proficient with this so can a complexity researcher, one would hope.</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="Well one piece of advice that might sound self-serving, but it isn&#8217;t in a sense is that I spent a lot of time building tools that I think are really well optimized to actually explore many questions. But among them, questions and complexity the whole Wolfram Language stack is really well optimized for these kinds of explorations. <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> Well one piece of advice that might sound self-serving, but it isn’t in a sense is that I spent a lot of time building tools that I think are really well optimized to actually explore many questions. But among them, questions and complexity the whole Wolfram Language stack is really well optimized for these kinds of explorations. <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice business" data-position="normal" data-date="2020-03-16 15:18:30"> <p class="date">March 16, 2020</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjr04l/stephen_wolfram_on_remote_work/fkojimh/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2020/03/16/our-company-just-started-remote-work-today-we-have-our-daily-stand-up-in-the-morning-as-well-as-a-casual-catch-up-in-the-evening-just-before-we-finish-is-this-a-good-way-to-go-about-it/">Our company just started remote work today. We have our daily stand-up in the morning as well as a casual catch-up in the evening just before we finish. Is this a good way to go about it?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>Do it by audio. You don&#8217;t need to physically have everyone there. Just make sure they all have good audio connections (no weird &#8220;people sounding like they&#8217;re in caves&#8221; etc.). Personally I&#8217;ve never found video useful. (The closest I get is that if I think people are not paying attention, I&#8217;ll sometimes threaten that we should switch video on &#8230; but in all these years I&#8217;ve never needed to do it 馃檪 )</p> <p>In meetings I have, I always like to have an agenda that we can screenshare &#8230; even if that&#8217;s just a list of people and projects to get reports on.</p> <p>Another point is that I very often am visibly taking notes on a version of the agenda while we&#8217;re doing the meeting. I find that helpful. Another thing is that quite often we record the meetings so people can go back later and figure out the details of what was said about something. (Something we just started doing is using our new Wolfram Language video and speech-to-text capabilities to make video and word-cloud summaries of meetings; this seems quite useful for going back to old meetings and finding details beyond the notes that were taken.)</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="Do it by audio. You don&#8217;t need to physically have everyone there. Just make sure they all have good audio connections (no weird &#8220;people sounding like they&#8217;re in caves&#8221; etc.). Personally I&#8217;ve never found video useful. (The closest I get is that if I think people are not paying attention, I&#8217;ll sometimes threaten that we should switch video on &#8230; <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> Do it by audio. You don’t need to physically have everyone there. Just make sure they all have good audio connections (no weird “people sounding like they’re in caves” etc.). Personally I’ve never found video useful. (The closest I get is that if I think people are not paying attention, I’ll sometimes threaten that we should switch video on … <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> <a class="tag" data-tag="business" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=business">Business</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice business" data-position="normal" data-date="2020-03-16 15:23:22"> <p class="date">March 16, 2020</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjr04l/stephen_wolfram_on_remote_work/fkoix4m/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2020/03/16/what-can-you-say-to-reassure-managers-and-ceos-who-are-concerned-that-if-they-cant-see-people-working-they-might-not-be-working/">What can you say to reassure managers and CEOs who are concerned that if they can’t see people working, they might not be working?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>For me, the most important thing is what people produce, not which particular hour of which day they did it. Sometimes there are things that need to be done on a short timescale, and I pay a lot of attention to whether they&#8217;re done.</p> <p>People in our company send out email reports about what they&#8217;re doing (usually weekly or monthly), and I make a point of looking through them, and responding whenever I notice something where I think I can be helpful (usually comments about how what they&#8217;re doing might relate to other company projects, etc.).</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="For me, the most important thing is what people produce, not which particular hour of which day they did it. Sometimes there are things that need to be done on a short timescale, and I pay a lot of attention to whether they&#8217;re done. People in our company send out email reports about what they&#8217;re doing (usually weekly or monthly), <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> For me, the most important thing is what people produce, not which particular hour of which day they did it. Sometimes there are things that need to be done on a short timescale, and I pay a lot of attention to whether they’re done. People in our company send out email reports about what they’re doing (usually weekly or monthly), <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> <a class="tag" data-tag="business" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=business">Business</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice business" data-position="normal" data-date="2020-03-16 15:24:55"> <p class="date">March 16, 2020</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjr04l/stephen_wolfram_on_remote_work/fkoiynw/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2020/03/16/how-do-you-motivate-staff-that-you-know-are-dealing-with-their-own-anxieties-and-personal-issues/">How do you motivate staff that you know are dealing with their own anxieties and personal issues?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>In general, I think it&#8217;s my responsibility to make sure that people are doing things that are interesting and important (and to communicate why those things are important and interesting). And then it&#8217;s the responsibility of me and our management chain to make sure that people are doing things which are a good fit for their skills, motivation, etc.</p> <p>I always think it helps when management knows at least a little about what people&#8217;s personal issues are, so they have a chance to make suggestions and try to adapt things. But ultimately I think people&#8217;s personal lives are a separate thread from what they do at the company. Though I certainly hope that people&#8217;s work at the company represents a positive and satisfying activity for them.</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="In general, I think it&#8217;s my responsibility to make sure that people are doing things that are interesting and important (and to communicate why those things are important and interesting). And then it&#8217;s the responsibility of me and our management chain to make sure that people are doing things which are a good fit for their skills, <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> In general, I think it’s my responsibility to make sure that people are doing things that are interesting and important (and to communicate why those things are important and interesting). And then it’s the responsibility of me and our management chain to make sure that people are doing things which are a good fit for their skills, <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> <a class="tag" data-tag="business" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=business">Business</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice business" data-position="normal" data-date="2020-03-16 15:28:30"> <p class="date">March 16, 2020</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjr04l/stephen_wolfram_on_remote_work/fkomvi7/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2020/03/16/what-would-you-say-to-a-manager-who-wants-employees-engaged-in-remote-work-to-be-on-a-webcam-meeting-all-day-so-they-can-be-monitored/">What would you say to a manager who wants employees engaged in remote work to be on a webcam meeting all day so they can be monitored?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>One wonders what the manager is doing so that they are in a position to just be &#8220;watching other people work&#8221; 馃檪</p> <p>The only thing that I&#8217;ve heard is that sometimes there are groups where people like to have videos of each other running, as a kind of simulation of being in an office together. I think for me I&#8217;d either find it very distracting, or I&#8217;d quickly tune it out.</p> <p>I think your putative manager should focus more on output than on whether people are making &#8220;I am concentrating&#8221; expressions to their webcams 馃檪</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="One wonders what the manager is doing so that they are in a position to just be &#8220;watching other people work&#8221; 馃檪 The only thing that I&#8217;ve heard is that sometimes there are groups where people like to have videos of each other running, as a kind of simulation of being in an office together. <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> One wonders what the manager is doing so that they are in a position to just be “watching other people work” 馃檪 The only thing that I’ve heard is that sometimes there are groups where people like to have videos of each other running, as a kind of simulation of being in an office together. <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> <a class="tag" data-tag="business" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=business">Business</a> </div> </div> <div class="project advice" data-position="normal" data-date="2020-03-16 15:31:39"> <p class="date">March 16, 2020</p> <p class="asker">From: <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjr04l/stephen_wolfram_on_remote_work/fkomsxq/' target='_blank'>Reddit AMA</a></p> <h2 class="projectname"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/2020/03/16/what-does-it-take-to-intern-or-begin-a-starting-position-working-on-the-wolfram-language-remotely/">What does it take to intern or begin a starting position working on the Wolfram Language remotely?</a></h2> <div class="introtext" data-text="<p>Go to <a href='https://www.wolfram.com/company/careers/'>wolfram.com/careers</a>!</p> <p>A very good way to get involved is our annual Summer School <a href='https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/'>https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/</a> We&#8217;re not sure how this is going to work this year, but we expect to do something.</p> <p>It&#8217;s notable that almost all of the instructors at the Summer School (who are mostly R&#038;D staff at our company) were alumni of the Summer School in previous years.</p> <a class='less' href='#close'>Close answer »</a>" data-truncate="Go to <a href='https://www.wolfram.com/company/careers/'>wolfram.com/careers</a>! A very good way to get involved is our annual Summer School <a href='https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/'>https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/</a> We&#8217;re not sure how this is going to work this year, but we expect to do something. It&#8217;s notable that almost all of the instructors at the Summer School (who are mostly R&#038;D staff at our company) were alumni of the Summer School in previous years. <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a>"> Go to <a href='https://www.wolfram.com/company/careers/'>wolfram.com/careers</a>! A very good way to get involved is our annual Summer School <a href='https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/'>https://education.wolfram.com/summer/school/</a> We’re not sure how this is going to work this year, but we expect to do something. It’s notable that almost all of the instructors at the Summer School (who are mostly R&D staff at our company) were alumni of the Summer School in previous years. <a href="#more" class="more chevron-after">Read more</a> </div> <div class="text"> <a class="tag" data-tag="advice" href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/main/?c=advice">Advice</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer id="footer"> <div class="inner"><a href="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/contact/">Contact</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> © Stephen Wolfram, LLC</div> </footer> <script src="https://www.stephenwolfram.com/questions/wp-content/themes/questions/js/scripts.js"></script> </main> <!-- begin framework footer en --> <div id ="IPstripe-wrap"></div> <script src="/common/stripe/stripe.en.js"></script> <!-- end framework footer en --> </body> </html>