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Using Mathematica Enterprise Edition to Create Professional Apps, Tools, and Reports

For more than two decades, Mathematica users have been using our technology to solve some of their most difficult problems. And when they find solutions, they need to communicate them to managers, colleagues, and clients. Like many other organizations, we also need to effectively communicate concepts when we design new technologies, and we need to make decisions quickly and efficiently. In the past, our own technology lacked a means of distributing results that could be viewed with a free document player, in which users could enter their own data, and that could update interactively and in real time. We made great strides in addressing all of those issues with the introduction of the Computable Document Format (CDF). CDF is a computation-powered knowledge container that supports all sorts of applications, dashboards, and reports.
André Kuzniarek, Director of Document and Media Systems
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Register Now for the First European Wolfram Technology Conference!

Our first ever European Wolfram Technology Conference will be held June 11–12 in Frankfurt, Germany (pre-conference training on June 10 in Friedrichsdorf). Join Wolfram developers and experts as we look at how combined computation expertise across all our technologies—Wolfram|Alpha, Computable Document Format, Wolfram SystemModeler, Wolfram Workbench, and of course Mathematica—can empower you and your organization in research, development, deployment—and progress.
Rita Crook, Marketing Projects Manager, European Sales
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Studying Wolfram Science in the Summertime

Last year was the 10th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science and the 10th installment of the Wolfram Science Summer School (formerly the NKS Summer School). To read more about the anniversary, check out the series of blog posts by Stephen Wolfram, starting here. The Wolfram Science Summer School is a three-week research school focused on advancing student projects in the field of complex systems. Students tend to be undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, professionals, and professors. Summer school students have historically represented a wide array of topical areas, including (but not limited to): computer science, mathematics, physics, biology, ecology, architecture, music, philosophy, political science, and economics. I've been helping out with the summer school since 2008. That first year up in beautiful Burlington, Vermont, I was lucky enough to be a student while I helped coordinate the event. Since then I've published a paper based on my 2008 project, and have worked on NKS methods as applied to music, social networks, and epidemic spread.
Abigail Nussey, Special Projects Technical Project Manager, Special Projects
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Explore Mathematica’s Visualization Capabilities: Free Virtual Workshop

Mathematica 9 added a slew of powerful visualization functions to its already long list of capabilities when it was released last November. To help highlight some of these and other visualization features, Wolfram Research is presenting a free virtual workshop. At the virtual workshop you can attend talks on a variety of topics, including 3D geometric modeling, data visualization, and interactive applications, and learn how to get started with your own projects. The workshop will also feature a panel discussion and Q&A sessions with Wolfram experts.
Wolfram Blog Team
Education & Academic

Announcement: Our First CBM Country

I'm very excited to announce that computerbasedmath.org has found the first country ready for our completely new kind of math education: it's Estonia. (...and here’s the press release). I thought Estonia could be first. They are very active on using technology (first to publish cabinet decisions immediately online, first to include programming in their mainstream curriculum), have ambition to improve their (already well respected) STEM aptitude and lack the dogma and resistance to change of many larger countries. There aren't so many countries with all those characteristics. In our first Estonia project we will work with them to rewrite key years of school probability and statistics from scratch. This is an area that's just crazy to do without a computer, even harmful. It's an area that's only come to the fore since computers because it only makes sense with lots of data. No-one in real life does these hand analyses or works with only 5 data points, so why do we make our students? Why get students emulating what computers do so much better (computing) rather than concentrate on imaginative thinking, analysis and problem-solving that students ought to be able to do so much better even than today's computers?
Conrad Wolfram
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Welcome, National Museum of Mathematics

I was just in New York City for the grand opening of the National Museum of Mathematics. Yes, there is now a National Museum of Mathematics, right in downtown Manhattan. And it’s really good—a unique and wonderful place. Which I’m pleased to say I’ve been able to help in various ways in bringing into existence […]

Stephen Wolfram
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Mathematica Experts Live: New in Mathematica 9

Curious about Mathematica 9? You can see it in action in three free online events. Our experts will introduce you to new features in usability, computation, data manipulation, and visualization. Live Q&A sessions during each event will give you a chance to ask questions. Topics covered: Predictive Interface and Units: December 10, 1–2pm EST Get a look at the new interface paradigm and systemwide units support. Our experts will demonstrate the next-computation Suggestions Bar, context-sensitive Input Assistant, and units features, from unit conversion to dimensional analysis.   Social Networks and Data Science: December 12, 1–2:30pm EST Learn about Mathematica 9's new social network analysis capabilities with built-in access to social media data, plus other graphs and networks enhancements and new computational features in data science, such as reliability, survival analysis, and random processes.   Data Manipulation and Visualization: December 14, 1–2:30pm EST Get the scoop on new features for image and signal processing, interactive gauges, legends for plots and charts, and integrating with R directly from our experts.  
Wolfram Blog Team
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Mathematica 9 Is Released Today!

I’m excited to be able to announce that today we’re releasing Mathematica 9—and it’s big! A whole array of new ideas and new application areas… and major advances along a great many algorithmic frontiers. Next year Mathematica will be 25 years old (and all sorts of festivities are planned!). And in that quarter century we’ve […]

Stephen Wolfram
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Now Playing: Wolfram Technology Conference 2012 Videos

Wolfram technology users from around the world gathered in our headquarter city last month for another successful Wolfram Technology Conference. Attendees got exclusive access to the latest information about our emerging technologies and gained insights from colleagues who shared innovative ways of using Wolfram products. A selection of videos from the conference is now available on YouTube. Check them out to see some of the creative applications our users have developed, including a high-level interface to MIDI sound, an innovative way to solve a Rubik's Cube from pictures, and a route finding system... just to name a few.
Wolfram Blog Team
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