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Delivering Computer-Based Math™ to the World

The 2013 Computer-Based Math™ Education Summit, one of the world's pivotal forums for global math education reform, took place this past November 21--22 in New York City's UNICEF Headquarters. Over 130 attendees gathered from across the globe and all aspects of education, including teachers, researchers, and policymakers, in order to tackle the changing landscape of primary and secondary school mathematics education worldwide.
Wolfram Blog Team
Announcements & Events

Wolfram Innovator Awards 2013: And the Winners Are…

Stephen Wolfram presented this year's six US-based Wolfram Innovator Awards at the 2013 Wolfram Technology Conference, honoring the contributions of individuals who are making new and important uses of Wolfram technologies in their respective industries or fields of research. Every year, candidates are nominated by Wolfram employees and evaluated by a panel of experts to determine the winners. We are excited to announce the US recipients of the 2013 Innovator Award: George Danner, President, Business Laboratory, LLC Brian Frezza and Emerald Therapeutics, Co-CEO, Co-founder, Emerald Therapeutics Charles Macal, Director, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation, Argonne National Laboratory Tom Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut Sam Daniel, Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Keith Stroyan, Professor of Mathematics, University of Iowa Read more about all of this year's Innovator Award winners and their accomplishments.
Wolfram Blog Team
Announcements & Events

Something Very Big Is Coming: Our Most Important Technology Project Yet

Computational knowledge. Symbolic programming. Algorithm automation. Dynamic interactivity. Natural language. Computable documents. The cloud. Connected devices. Symbolic ontology. Algorithm discovery. These are all things we’ve been energetically working on—mostly for years—in the context of Wolfram|Alpha, Mathematica, CDF and so on. But recently something amazing has happened. We’ve figured out how to take all these threads, […]

Stephen Wolfram
Education & Academic

12 Years of Wolfram Science Summer School Data Analytics

Applications are now open for the 2014 Wolfram Science Summer School, the twelfth year it's been held. Over my six years of participation in the school (as Event Director, student, and instructor), I've met a lot of people from all over the world, seen a lot of interesting projects (many of which turned into theses, papers, and products), and worked on my own projects as well. Some of my favorite student projects over the years have been in economics, medicine, finance, and music.
Abigail Nussey, Special Projects Technical Project Manager, Special Projects
Education & Academic

Arm Yourselves with Wolfram Knowledge

By now, most of you students are likely getting into the thick of the academic year, preparing for the first wave of exams and projects and presentations to come your way... But don't freak out just yet! Here's a list of Wolfram's most recent apps and programs that might help make your life a little easier. After all, it never hurts to have a few powerful resources on your side.
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