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Launching the Wolfram Challenges Site

The more one does computational thinking, the better one gets at it. And today we’re launching the Wolfram Challenges site to give everyone a source of bite-sized computational thinking challenges based on the Wolfram Language. Use them to learn. Use them to stay sharp. Use them to prove how great you are. The Challenges typically […]

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User Research: Deep Learning for Gravitational Wave Detection with the Wolfram Language

Daniel George is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wolfram Summer School alum and Wolfram intern whose award-winning research on deep learning for gravitational wave detection recently landed in the prestigious pages of Physics Letters B in a special issue commemorating the Nobel Prize in 2017. We sat down with Daniel to learn more about his research and how the Wolfram Language plays a part in it.
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What Is a Computational Essay?

A Powerful Way to Express Ideas People are used to producing prose—and sometimes pictures—to express themselves. But in the modern age of computation, something new has become possible that I’d like to call the computational essay. I’ve been working on building the technology to support computational essays for several decades, but it’s only very recently […]

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What Is a Computational Essay? (Russian)

Высокоэффективный способ выражения идей

Люди привыкли к созданию прозы, а иногда изображений, для самовыражения. Но в современную эпоху вычислений появилось нечто новое, что я хотел бы назвать вычислительным эссе.

Я работаю над созданием технологии для поддержки вычислительных эссе уже в течение нескольких десятилетий, но только совсем недавно я понял, насколько вычислительные эссе могут быть важны как для формы обучения людей, так и для их формы обмена фактами и идеями. Профессионалы будущего будут регулярно предоставлять результаты и отчеты как вычислительные эссе. Педагоги будут регулярно объяснять концепции, используя вычислительные эссе. Студенты будут регулярно создавать вычислительные эссе в качестве домашней работы для своих классов.

Вот очень простой пример вычислительного эссе:

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High-School Summer Camp: A Two-Week Path to Computational Thinking

The Summer Camp Was a Success! How far can one get in teaching computational thinking to high-school students in two weeks? Judging by the results of this year’s Wolfram High-School Summer Camp the answer is: remarkably far. I’ve been increasingly realizing what an immense and unique opportunity there now is to teach computational thinking with […]

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Apply Now for the 15th Annual Wolfram Summer School

This year's Wolfram Summer School will be held at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, from June 18 to July 7, 2017. Maybe you're a researcher who wants to study the dynamics of galaxies with cellular automata. Perhaps you're an innovator who wants to create a way to read time from pictures of analog clocks or build a new startup with products that use RFID (radio-frequency identification) to track objects. You might be an educator who wants to build an algebra feedback system or write a textbook that teaches designers how to disinvent the need for air conditioning. These projects show the diversity and creativity of some of our recent Summer School students. Does this sound like you? If so, we want you to join us this summer!