The software was considered revolutionary - Wolfram made his first deal with Jobs, who bundled the program with the high-end technical computers Jobs was making at NeXT Corporation, the company he founded after he was fired from Apple. "And I argued 'gosh, it sounds rather long and ponderous.' And his response was 'well, so does Macintosh.'"
But Jobs "had a whole argument that you have to take a generic name and romanticize it," Wolfram told CNBC. Wolfram had considered the name, but wanted something pithier. His friend Steve Jobs suggested Wolfram call it Mathematica. The company would be the home for Wolfram's new program. He founded Wolfram Research in 1987 with his own money, some of it from his MacArthur grant. While intended for a technical audience, it would be accessible even to people who were not deeply experienced with computers.
So when he left academia, he began working on a computer program that would automate complex mathematical tasks. Still, he said, he "wasn't that excited about, or good at, doing mathematical calculations," and software helped automate much of that work.īut by the time he received his doctorate, he was already reaching the edge of what was possible with available systems - he had even built one of his own with colleagues while still at Caltech.
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