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Date Archive: 2010 November
Conrad Wolfram’s TED Talk: “Stop Teaching Calculating, Start Teaching Math”
Programming with Natural Language Is Actually Going to Work
I love computer languages. In fact, I’ve spent roughly half my life nurturing one particular very rich computer language: Mathematica. But do we really need computer languages to tell our computers what to do? Why can’t we just use natural human languages, like English, instead? If you’d asked me a few years ago, I would […]
The Free-Form Linguistics Revolution in Mathematica
With the release of Mathematica 8 today, the single most dramatic change is that you don’t have to communicate with Mathematica in the Mathematica language any more: you can just use free-form English instead. Wolfram|Alpha has pioneered the concept of specifying computations with free-form linguistic input. And with Mathematica 8, the powerful methods of Wolfram|Alpha […]
Mathematica 8!
Mathematica 8 is released today! It’s a huge and important release. With dramatic breakthroughs—and major broadening of the whole scope of Mathematica. After 8 versions and 22 years most software systems have decayed to slow and lumbering development. But not Mathematica. In fact, with Mathematica it’s quite the opposite. As the years go by, Mathematica […]