http://blog.wolfram.com News, views, & ideas from the front lines at Wolfram Research Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:54:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I'm excited to be able to announce the launch of Wolfram|Alpha Pro---the biggest single step in the development of Wolfram|Alpha since its original introduction. Over the two and a half years since we first launched, Wolfram|Alpha has been growing rapidly in content and capabilities. But today's introduction of Wolfram|Alpha Pro in ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/02/08/announcing-wolframalpha-pro/ I was amazed to see this tweet from our friends at the Museum of Mathematics: 10*9*8+7+6-5+4*321Happy New Year!— Museum of Math (@MoMath1) January 3, 2012 A quick check with Mathematica verified that, yes indeed, 10*9*8+7+6-5+4*321 = 2012. Wow! How in the world did anyone discover that rare factoid? And how long will ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/02/02/happy-109876-54321/ Tips for analyzing your social networks with Mathematica, workshops for publishing with CDF, real-world solutions for your financial applications—these are just a few of the many highlights from the Wolfram Technology Conference 2011. If you missed a talk or weren't able to attend, we've now made videos of select presentations available ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/01/25/c-and-a-box-of-chocolates-video-presentations-from-the-wolfram-technology-conference-2011/ Teachers, are you looking for a new way to integrate technology into your classroom? How about through a dynamic textbook or pre-generated lesson plans? Students, are you looking for some extra help or practice in your classes? How about using interactive demonstrations and widgets to help understand the concepts you ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/01/18/the-wolfram-education-portal-is-here/ UPDATE: The solution to the puzzle and more comments from Jon have been added at the bottom of the post. On the long flight to the recent Wolfram Technology Conference, I ended up on the puzzle page of a newspaper. My attention was drawn to a word ladder puzzle, where you ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/01/11/the-longest-word-ladder-puzzle-ever/ Does this scenario sound familiar? You've created a real-time analytics interface for your internal data in Mathematica and you want to share it with your colleagues. But they don't have, or typically need, Mathematica. You aren't alone. Many of our users have approached me with similar concerns. That's why we created ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/01/06/deliver-professional-applications-with-wolfram-player-pro/ In a recent series of Image Processing with Mathematica workshops held at universities across the United States, we presented Mathematica's new image processing functionality and applied it on the spot to attendees' real-world problems. It was amazing to me to see how rapidly and flexibly Mathematica could be applied to ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/01/04/how-to-count-cells-annihilate-sailboats-and-warp-the-mona-lisa/ Take Stephen Wolfram's theory of the universe, add a dash of symmetry, and what do you get? Snowflakes. Cellular automata—the basis of Stephen's theory—typically operate on rectlinear grids. But with suitable automata rules and a simple geometric transformation, you can achieve patterns with six-fold dihedral symmetry, the symmetry of snowflakes. My colleague ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/12/28/two-hundred-thousand-snowflake-greetings-to-you-and-yours/ Mathematica 8 introduced powerful new advances in technical computing. Among them: free-form input and Wolfram|Alpha integration; fully integrated, specialist technical functionality in a number of application areas; tools to develop faster and more powerful applications; and the Computable Document Format (CDF). At the Wolfram Technology Conference 2011, the Wolfram directors who ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/12/19/mathematica-8-year-in-review/ Got questions about Mathematica? The Wolfram Blog has answers! We'll regularly answer selected questions from users around the web. You can submit your question directly to the Q&A Team. This week's question comes from Jee: How can I transform the output of partial differentiation such as f(1, 0)[x, y] to the mathematical ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/12/15/mathematica-qa-series-converting-to-conventional-mathematical-typesetting/