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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
Leading Edge

Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi

Last week I wrote about our large-scale plan to use new technology we’re building to inject sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. Today I’m pleased to announce a step in that direction: working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, effective immediately there’s a pilot release of the Wolfram Language—as well as Mathematica—that will soon be bundled […]

Stephen Wolfram
Announcements & Events

Wolfram Technology Conference 2013: That’s a Wrap

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.
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

Q&A with Harvard Professor Oliver Knill

Last month, students in the midterm review session of Harvard's Math 21a class received a lesson in Mathematica they would not soon forget. Professor Oliver Knill coded a 3D-animated Miley Cyrus swinging on a wrecking ball to the beat of her song (by the same name). Knill used the same principles of mathematics that his class was reviewing for the midterm---and now he just may be the coolest professor ever.
Wolfram Blog Team
Computation & Analysis

Bringing Zombies to Life… Is That an Oxymoron?

I was lucky enough in college to be able to double-major in physics and film/media. One of the coolest connections that formed from these completely opposite subjects was the use of Mathematica. What started out as just a computational tool for all the work in my physics classes turned into an experimental playground for the digital animation I was creating in my film classes. Mathematica is an ideal program to model the true science of motion. And as you'll come to see, it looks complicated, but is actually quite simple! Let's start with understanding some basic human anatomy (or zombie anatomy, since this post is technically about zombies):
Allison Taylor, Public Relations & Marketing Writer, Public Relations
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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