Wolfram Alpha's Creator Runs a Summer Camp, Too

On the very first day of Wolfram Camp, I called Stephen Wolfram "Steve." "It's Stephen, actually," said the world's most controversial physicist in his crisp-yet-droll British accent. In another life, the creator of Wolfram Alpha would have made an excellent BBC Radio News announcer. "No one under the age of 50 calls me Steve," he added. Katie Orenstein is a New York City-based writer, programmer, and thespian who moonlights as a high school senior.