I’m the younger Wolfram brother of Wolfram Research.

It’s us who have been assembling a unified computational ecosystem since 1988 to power everything from data science to modelling to AI—through technology (including Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Language), consulting and educational programs.

After the company’s launch in the US, I founded the European Wolfram Research in 1991 and have been its CEO ever since. From 1997, I have also been group strategic director, driving a mixture of business and technology directions and oversight in the company, some of which work their way across the industry. A key focus is optimising in business operations and building technology—and involves innovation in the core issue and the human interface to it.

I’m driven by working out how technology and computation can improve our lives with better answers and decisions—directly, and through changing education of human intelligence, especially now we’re entering the AI age.

To this end, I founded computerbasedmath.org in 2010 to “build a new mainstream computational curriculum, assuming computers exist”—exposing why maths education is in crisis worldwide, setting about building the fundamentally new mainstream subject that is required. In 2020 the release of The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age brought together the complete proposal for reform from problem to the fix to achieving change, including achieving “computational literacy” for all.

I was educated in the UK at the eclectic Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College and Cambridge University from which I have an MA in physics and mathematics.

Hobbies include still photography, playing the piano, and recently woodturning and flying (usually a Piper Arrow).