Disney Animated was just selected by Apple as the Best iPad App of 2013! Congratulations to Theodore Gray---one of the co-founders of our company---and Touch Press, a company incubated at Wolfram Research!

Wolfram Research hosted the annual Technology Conference at our headquarters in Champaign, Illinois, October 21--23. We welcomed over two hundred attendees from twenty different countries, making this our largest turnout yet! The event was once again jam-packed with exciting talks, Q&As, workshops, and even hands-on time with some of our top-secret upcoming products. (Sorry, but you had to be there to find out what they are—all attendees signed a Nondisclosure Agreement in order to hear the latest about our unreleased technologies!) We enjoyed a stellar opening keynote from Stephen Wolfram, which left everyone buzzing with anticipation for the sessions and speakers to follow.

I just finished giving a short presentation to several thousand screaming fans at the D23 Disney fan convention in Anaheim, California. When I say “screaming fans,” what I mean is Disney fans who were literally screaming at what I had to say. This already somewhat improbable situation was made all the more surprising by the fact that they were screaming about FindClusters. Well, technically, most of them may not have actually realized that’s what they were screaming about, because they were seeing only the output of the command, not the actual Mathematica code. But the thing they were so excited about was direct output from Mathematica, and the key differentiating factor that made it so interesting to them was the ability of FindClusters to discern, differentiate, and illuminate the shifting moods and emotions of animated feature films.

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