Stanislaw Ulam

The modeling process—or at least the racy name for it—originated with Stanislaw Ulam, one of the physicists seeking to find the formula for the amount of energy a given critical mass would release in a chain reaction.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

The modeling process—or at least the racy name for it—originated with Stanislaw Ulam, one of the physicists seeking to find the formula for the amount of energy a given critical mass would release in a chain reaction.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

The mathematician Stanislaw Ulam gave von Neumann advice on how to make his self-reproducing machine simpler.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

It grew out of two sets of lectures I gave: the 1998 Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lectures at the Santa Fe Institute on “Digitization and the Economy” and the Cairnes Lectures in 2000 at the National University of Ireland, Galway, on “High Technology and the Economy.”

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

One day in the 1950s, while talking with his colleague Stanislaw Ulam, von Neumann began discussing the ever-accelerating pace of technological change, which, he said, "gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs as we know them could not continue."

Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity 2008

He was near despair when an urbane Polish mathematician at Los Alamos, Stanislaw Ulam, showed him the way to a breakthrough.

The Atomic Bomb 2008

It was a big idea, headed by Stanislaw Ulam (the real father of the H-bomb over Teller) and had all that boldness of that post WWII era.

Be vewwwwy vewwwwy quiet…. Julianne 2008

Stanislaw Ulam, the Warsaw-born physicist, was also surprised how little people [in Princeton] talked to each other compared with the endless hours in the coffeehouses[in Europe] where the mathematicians were genuinely interested in each others work.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

There was a different mood among the exiled scientistsa terrible anxiety about the fate of all those whom we had left behindfamily and friends, as Stanislaw Ulam recalled.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

Of Oppenheimers reluctance about the Super, Stanislaw Ulam noted later, Someone who, having been instrumental in starting a revolution and the advent of nuclear energy merits this appellation, does not contemplate with pleasure still bigger revolutions to come.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006