Wolfram Research
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer software, Publishing, Research and Development |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder(s) | Stephen Wolfram Theodore Gray is the company's Director of User Interface Technology.[1] |
| Headquarters | Champaign, Illinois (worldwide headquarters) Oxfordshire, UK Tokyo, Japan with additional locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Paris, France. |
| Key people |
President, Stephen Wolfram International & Strategic Director, Conrad Wolfram |
| Products | Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica, Wolfram Alpha |
| Owner(s) | Privately held |
| Employees | 400+ |
| Divisions | Wolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Japan. |
| Website | wolfram.com |
Coordinates: 40°05′50″N 88°14′44″W / 40.097128°N 88.245690°W
Wolfram Research is a private company that makes mathematics programs. Its main product is Mathematica, an environment for technical computing. The founder and CEO of Wolfram Research is Stephen Wolfram, scientist and author, who maintains close involvement with the development of Mathematica.
The primary software product of Wolfram Research is the program Mathematica, which has, as of November 2010, undergone an upgrade to version 8. Other products include Wolfram Workbench, Mathematica Link for Excel[2], gridMathematica, and webMathematica.
The company launched Wolfram Alpha, an answer engine on 16 May 2009. It brings a new approach to knowledge generation and acquisition that involves large amounts of curated computable data in addition to semantic indexing of text.[3]
Wolfram Research served as the mathematical consultant for the CBS television series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical aspects of crime-solving.[citation needed]
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[edit] Publications
Wolfram Research publishes several free websites including the MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedias.
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is a collaborative site hosting interactive technical demonstrations powered by a free Mathematica Player runtime.
Wolfram Research publishes the Mathematica journal and has published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm.[4]
Wolfram Research has organized three Wolfram Science conferences in Boston, MA, Washington, D.C. and Burlington, VT in the United States in the years 2003, 2006 and 2007 respectively. Two other independent NKS Midwest conferences have been organized at the Indiana University, Bloomington in 2005 and 2008. Other independent workshops related to NKS research have been also organized overseas, such as JOUAL (Just One Universal Algorithm) at the CNR in Pisa, Italy in 2009.
They are experimenting with electronic textbook creation.[5]
[edit] See also
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Wikinews has related news: Wolfram Research’s new product Alpha to compete with Google and Wikipedia |
[edit] References
- ^ Stock Market Returns by Presidential Party by Theodore Gray, Co-founder, Director of User Interfaces, WolframBlog, October 16, 2008]
- ^ http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/excel_link/
- ^ Johnson, Bobbie (2009-03-09). "British search engine 'could rival Google'". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/09/search-engine-google. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
- ^ Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science sets a new standard in more ways than one by Charlotte Abbott, Publishers Weekly, 6/24/2002
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[edit] External links
- Official website
- Hoovers Fact Sheet on Wolfram Research, Inc.
- Michael Trott: The Science and Art of Mathematica by Tim McIntyre, Science, Apple.com, 2007.
- The Mathematics Behind NUMB3RS, Wolfram's site on NUMB3RS mathematics.
- Supercomputer Pictures Solve the Once Insoluble, John Markoff, The New York Times, October 30, 1988
- Meet an Inventor Whose Product Makes Complex Calculus Simple by Gautam Naik, The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 1996
- Stephen Wolfram's Simple Science by Michael Arndt, Business Week, May 17, 2002.
- Wolfram releases 'revolutionary' Mathematica 6: Mathematica 6 developer promises a 'revolution in computing' by Jonny Evans, MacWorld, May 2, 2007.
