WOLFRAM

Wolfram Summer School

Alumni

Kathryn Cramer

Philosophy and Strategy

Class of 2024

Bio

Kathryn Cramer is a multi-disciplinary innovator with a versatile skill set. Her current research interests include Large Language Models and Data Visualization. She is affiliated with the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont’s Complex Systems Center working with Chris Danforth and Peter Sheridan Dodds. She has worked at Wolfram Research in the Technology & Strategy Group and the Scientific Information Group. She is an award-winning science fiction editor who has published 29 anthologies, and has been an editorial consultant for Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination and for the X-Prize Foundation. Her COVID skills are 3D printing and stencil spray painting. She had her first solo art show, an exhibition of her pandemic stencil spray paint art, in the winter of 2024. She lives on a family farm in the Adirondack in Westport, New York, raising organically grown apples. A native speaker of English, she also speaks German. She is the widow of science fiction editor David Hartwell, her major literary collaborator, and the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. Her most recent project (May 2024) is a short film about her current partner Ted Cornell, a retired theatre director and artist, directed by documentary filmmaker Laurie House.

Project: Spot the Cat: Cellular Automata Edition, or or Representational Images in Cellular Automata