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Prepare for AP Calculus and More with Wolfram U

Today I am proud to announce a free interactive course, Introduction to Calculus, hosted on Wolfram's learning hub, Wolfram U! The course is designed to give a comprehensive introduction to fundamental concepts in calculus such as limits, derivatives and integrals. It includes 38 video lessons along with interactive notebooks that offer examples in the Wolfram Cloud—all for free. This is the second of Wolfram U's fully interactive free online courses, powered by our cloud and notebook technology.

This introduction to the profound ideas that underlie calculus will help students and learners of all ages anywhere in the world to master the subject. While the course requires no prior knowledge of the Wolfram Language, the concepts illustrated by the language are geared toward easy reader comprehension due to its human-readable nature. Studying calculus through this course is a good way for high-school students to prepare for AP Calculus AB.

Devendra Kapadia, Manager of Calculus and Algebra, Algorithms R&D
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Wolfram|Alpha日本語版 – 日本語の数学の質問に日本語で答えてくれる

Wolfram|Alpha senior developer Noriko Yasui explains the basic features of the Japanese version of Wolfram|Alpha. This version was released in June 2018, and its mathematics domain has been completely localized into Japanese. Yasui shows how Japanese students, teachers and professionals can ask mathematical questions and obtain the results in their native language. In addition to these basic features, she introduces a unique feature of Japanese Wolfram|Alpha: curriculum-based Japanese high-school math examples. Japanese high-school students can see how Wolfram|Alpha answers typical questions they see in their math textbooks or college entrance exams.
Noriko Yasui, Senior Developer, Data and Semantics Engineering
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Launching the Wolfram Neural Net Repository

Today, we are excited to announce the official launch of the Wolfram Neural Net Repository! A huge amount of work has gone into training or converting around 70 neural net models that now live in the repository, and can be accessed programmatically in the Wolfram Language via NetModel:
✕ net = NetModel["ResNet-101 Trained on ImageNet Competition Data"]
✕ net[]
Neural nets have generated a lot of interest recently, and rightly so: they form the basis for state-of-the-art solutions to a dizzying array of problems, from speech recognition to machine translation, from autonomous driving to playing Go. Fortunately, the Wolfram Language now has a state-of-the-art neural net framework (and a growing tutorial collection). This has made possible a whole new set of Wolfram Language functions, such as FindTextualAnswer, ImageIdentify, ImageRestyle and FacialFeatures. And deep learning will no doubt play an important role in our continuing mission to make human knowledge computable.
Sebastian Bodenstein, et al.
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Five Ways to Make Your Technical Presentations Awesome

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -- Benjamin Franklin I can count on one hand the best presentations I have ever experienced, the most recent being my university dynamics lecturer bringing out his electric guitar at the end of term to demonstrate sound waves; a pharmaceutical CEO giving an impassioned after-dinner oration about how his love of music influenced his business decisions; and last but not least, my award-winning attempt at explaining quantum entanglement using a marble run and a cardboard box (I won a bottle of wine). It's perhaps equally easy to recall all the worst presentations I've experienced as well---for example, too many PowerPoint presentations crammed full of more bullet points than a shooting target; infinitesimally small text that only Superman's telescopic vision could handle; presenters intent on slowly reading every word that they've squeezed onto a screen and thoroughly missing the point of a presentation: that of succinctly communicating interesting ideas to an audience.
Joanna Crown, Strategic Projects, Strategic Initiatives
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Announcing Wolfram Presenter Tools

Introducing the Ultimate Technical Presentation Environment with Live Interactivity

We are delighted to announce that Wolfram's latest comprehensive notebook technology extension is here. Released with Version 11.3 of Wolfram desktop products, Wolfram Presenter Tools is the world's first fully computational presentation environment, seamlessly extending the notebook workflow for easy creation and delivery of dynamic presentations and slide shows, automatically scaled to fit any screen size. Our unique presentation features include rapid stylesheet updating and automatic slide breaking based on cell style.
Cat Frazier, Wolfram Blog Project Manager, Document & Media Systems
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Unleash Your Models with SystemModeler 5.1

Explore the contents of this article with a free Wolfram SystemModeler trial. We are excited to announce the latest installment in the Wolfram SystemModeler series, Version 5.1, where our primary focus has been on pushing the scope of use for models of systems beyond the initial stages of development.

Since 2012, SystemModeler has been used in a wide variety of fields with an even larger number of goals—such as optimizing the fuel consumption of a car, finding the optimal dosage of a drug for liver disease and maximizing the lifetime of a battery system. The Version 5.1 update expands SystemModeler beyond its previous usage horizons to include a whole host of options, such as:

Exporting models in a form that includes a full simulation engine, which makes them usable in a wide variety of tools Providing the right interface for your models so that they are easy for others to explore and analyze Sharing models with millions of users with the simulation core now included in the Wolfram Language
Patrik Ekenberg, Applications Engineer, Wolfram MathCore Jan Brugård, CEO, Wolfram MathCore
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Roaring into 2018 with Another Big Release: Launching Version 11.3 of the Wolfram Language & Mathematica

Last September we released Version 11.2 of the < ahref="https://www.wolfram.com/language/"Wolfram Language and Mathematica—with all sorts of new functionality, including 100+ completely new functions. Version 11.2 was a big release. But today we’ve got a still bigger release: Version 11.3 that, among other things, includes nearly 120 completely new functions. This June 23rd it’ll be 30 […]

Stephen Wolfram
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Wolfram News Roundup: Neural Net Connectivity, Gravitational Wave Discoveries and More

It's been an exciting beginning to the new year here at Wolfram Research with the coming release of Version 11.3 of the Wolfram Language, a soft announcement of the Wolfram Neural Net Repository and our launch of multiparadigm data science. As part of the new year, we're also launching some new content in the Public Relations department. As you may have seen, each month we are highlighting the accomplishments of our members on Wolfram Community. We are also recapping news and events about Wolfram each month. So, in case you missed the latest, check out these news stories:
Swede White, Public Relations Manager
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