http://blog.wolfram.com News, views, & ideas from the front lines at Wolfram Research Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:07:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stephen Wolfram highlighted several future directions of Wolfram technologies during his keynote address at the International Mathematica User Conference 2009. Among them were new developments surrounding Wolfram|Alpha. In the following video, Stephen outlines some of the directions in the works for Wolfram|Alpha and gives a sneak peek at one soon-to-be-released ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/11/19/future-directions-of-wolframalpha/ Yu-Feng Lin, a hydrogeologist at the Illinois State Water Survey, is on a mission to tackle a top national research priority using Mathematica. In this video, Lin details why this project could only be done in Mathematica. [SWF]http://www.youtube.com/v/i6Dn7kr43O4, 425, 344, hl=en&fs=1[/SWF] Because of the importance of groundwater recharge and discharge in the ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/11/17/mathematica-and-natural-resources-research/ Stephen Wolfram kicked off the International Mathematica User Conference 2009 with an inside look at what he calls an incredible research and development pipeline for Mathematica. During last year's keynote address, Stephen surprised attendees with news about the release of Mathematica 7---just 18 months after Mathematica 6. This year, he said ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/11/12/the-rd-pipeline-for-mathematica/ Future Mathematica features, new directions for Wolfram|Alpha, and how the two Wolfram technologies will be integrated were highlights of Stephen Wolfram's keynote address at the International Mathematica User Conference 2009. Stephen says Wolfram Research will follow up an extremely successful 2009 with a remarkable "breakout year for our company" and the ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/11/06/a-remarkable-year-ahead-for-mathematica/ Finance professionals have been using Mathematica for years to optimize portfolios, develop and refine analytic risk models, rapidly prototype products and trading strategies, deploy analysis tools over the web, and much more. Not surprisingly, we've seen increased interest in Mathematica's financial applications stemming from the current economic struggles. Accurate models ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/11/03/mathematica-manages-financial-risk/ The "Problems and Solutions" section of The American Mathematical Monthly journal has always been a source of interesting problems to keep me entertained. Their solutions often require ingenuity. The problems in the October issue were no exception. I always analyze and explore these problems in Mathematica. Being a kernel developer, I ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/10/28/mathematica-and-the-american-mathematical-monthlys-problems-and-solutions-section/ There is still lots of excitement at this year's International Mathematica User Conference. This morning started with a lively talk from Wolfram Research's Conrad Wolfram and Theodore Gray on the future of publishing. Essentially, they opined that the future will be paper-less and sparked with interactivity. Their goal is to ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/10/23/more-from-the-international-mathematica-user-conference-2009/ This year's International Mathematica User Conference is off to a great start! The day opened with a combined talk by Wolfram Research's Roger Germundsson and Tom Wickham-Jones discussing Mathematica's current and future features and its development and deployment tools. Along with many Wolfram Research developers, Mathematica users from all over ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/10/22/first-day-of-the-international-mathematica-user-conference-2009/ There's a lot going on in the Wolfram|Alpha project these days—and this week there's a remarkable convergence of events. Late last week we introduced the Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API, allowing outside developers to call Wolfram|Alpha from their websites or application programs. Then yesterday we released the first mobile implementation of Wolfram|Alpha, ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/10/20/a-big-week-for-wolframalpha/ There are lots of things going on at Wolfram Research these days. October 22–24 is our annual International Mathematica User Conference, and October 21 is the first-ever Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day! Homework Day is a groundbreaking, marathon live interactive web event that brings together students, parents, and educators from across the ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/10/19/using-mathematica-and-wolframalpha-in-the-classroom/