http://blog.wolfram.com News, views, & ideas from the front lines at Wolfram Research Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ I am always intrigued by the many ways people use Mathematica. But it was even more exciting to be a part of the American Chemical Society Fall 2009 National Meeting and hear the true excitement and awe of our users' latest discoveries of what is possible in Mathematica. I also ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/10/15/wolfram-research-at-the-fall-2009-american-chemical-society-national-meeting-and-exposition/ The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an ongoing endeavor to map the sky in great detail, with many different goals. One of the larger objectives is to map the structure of the cosmos by determining the positions of galaxies and their relativistic redshift (basically their distance). Using this data ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/10/06/rendering-the-structure-of-the-universe-in-your-spare-time/ Major growth in air traffic is forcing regulators and traffic management teams within the industry to create and study more efficient flight operations. Mike Ulrey, a member of Boeing's Advanced Air Traffic Management team, is tackling this problem with Mathematica. In this video, Ulrey describes how Mathematica's graphical and visualization capabilities ... http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/09/29/mathematicas-role-in-flight-operational-safety-analysis/