Stephen Wolfram kicked off the International Mathematica User Conference 2009 with an inside look at what he calls an incredible research and development pipeline for Mathematica. During last year's keynote address, Stephen surprised attendees with news about the release of Mathematica 7---just 18 months after Mathematica 6. This year, he said our development pace has become even faster. The following video clip includes a few examples of what our R&D team has in the pipeline for future versions of Mathematica. (You can see the first part in our series of highlights from Stephen's keynote here.)

Future Mathematica features, new directions for Wolfram|Alpha, and how the two Wolfram technologies will be integrated were highlights of Stephen Wolfram's keynote address at the International Mathematica User Conference 2009. Stephen says Wolfram Research will follow up an extremely successful 2009 with a remarkable "breakout year for our company" and the Mathematica community. Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing video highlights and transcript excerpts with you from Stephen's conference keynote. In the first part of this series, Stephen shares the history and trajectory of Mathematica, including some insight on what he calls the "most dramatic" development for him.

There's a lot going on in the Wolfram|Alpha project these days—and this week there's a remarkable convergence of events. Late last week we introduced the Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API, allowing outside developers to call Wolfram|Alpha from their websites or application programs. Then yesterday we released the first mobile implementation of Wolfram|Alpha, in the form of an iPhone app. Tomorrow, we're doing something completely different: Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day—a 14-hour live webcast event for students and educators. Oh, and starting on Thursday is the International Mathematica User Conference, which will show many advances in the core Mathematica technology on which Wolfram|Alpha is based.

Stephen Wolfram shared his thoughts and answered many of your questions about Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and his scientific research in his webcast Thursday, September 17. In case you missed it, the webcast is now available on our new streaming server. Thanks for participating and submitting great questions.

Have you ever wanted to pick the brain of the man behind Wolfram|Alpha, Mathematica, and A New Kind of Science? Stephen Wolfram will be sharing his thoughts and answering your questions in a live webcast on Thursday, September 17, at 2pm U.S. CDT. To submit your questions for Stephen Wolfram, please visit the Wolfram|Alpha blog. We hope you'll join us for this event.

We are pleased to announce the release of webMathematica 3 today. Innovative new performance and development features make webMathematica 3 the ultimate tool for adding dynamic content to the web. The new version makes it faster and easier to build websites that allow users to compute and visualize results directly from a web browser. webMathematica 3 is the deployment technology that makes Wolfram|Alpha, the groundbreaking online computational knowledge engine, possible. Wolfram|Alpha visitors can tap into Mathematica's computational and graphics abilities without having Mathematica experience or Mathematica itself.