Wolfram has been banging this drum and self-promoting for approximately ever (see also his similarly badly-in-need-of-an-editor book "A New Kind Of Science", wh

Wolfram has been banging this drum and self-promoting for approximately ever (see also his similarly badly-in-need-of-an-editor book "A New Kind Of Science", which generated plenty of commentary see http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_reviews.html http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_reviews.html). He's is own worst enemy in many ways, as he undermines some actually interesting work with an outsider complex, a pathological need to self-aggrandize and a tendency to claim others work as his own.