WOLFRAM

News, Views & Insights

Current Events & History

What’s Up with Daylight Saving Time? A Brief History and Analysis with Wolfram Language

In the next few days, most people in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Haiti and some parts of Mexico will be transitioning from “standard” (or winter) time to “daylight” (or summer) time. This semiannual tradition has been the source of desynchronized alarm clocks, missed appointments and headaches for parents trying to get kids to bed at the right time since 1908, but why exactly do we fiddle with the clocks two times a year?

Nick Lariviere, Kernel Developer, Algorithms R&D
Education & Academic

A Whole New Ball Game: Game Theory in Wolfram Language 14.2

Do you want to make optimal decisions against competition? Do you want to analyze competitive contexts and predict outcomes of competitive events? Do you need to elaborate strategies and plans against adversity and test the effectiveness of those strategies? Or are you simply an undergraduate student struggling to cope with a required course on game theory at your college?
Marc Vicuna, Kernel Developer, Algorithms R&D
Computation & Analysis

Nobel Prize–Inspired de novo Protein Design with Wolfram Language

When I read a recent New York Times article on AI, I didn’t think I would be following the footsteps of a Nobel laureate, but I soon discovered that I could do just that with Wolfram Language. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024 was awarded for computational protein design and protein structure prediction, which have been active areas of research for several decades. The early work was built upon a foundation of physics and chemistry, attempting to model the folding of the chain of amino acid residues comprising a protein into a three-dimensional structure using conformational analysis and energetics. More recently, AI methods have been brought to bear on the problem, making use of deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs) such as trRosetta, AlphaFold and ESMFold. The work of David Baker, one of the laureates, was recently showcased in a New York Times article.
Robert Nachbar, Senior Project Director, Wolfram Solutions
Computation & Analysis

Using AI for Thematic Analysis: Analyzing Coroner Reports with LLMs

In the United Kingdom, Prevention of Future Deaths forms (PFDs) play a crucial role in ensuring public safety. This is a special type of coroner report that documents more than just the circumstances of an individual’s death. PFDs are issued when a coroner investigates a death and rules that a specific risk or systemic failure—deemed as preventable—has played a significant role in said death.
Harrison Boon, Former Intern & Guest Author Ned Pratt, Former Intern & Guest Author
Announcements & Events

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 One-Liner Competition

The 2024 Wolfram Technology Conference has ended, and we sent it off with our annual One-Liner Competition! Each year, participants are challenged to show off their Wolfram Language skills in this contest of brevity and creativity by using only 140 or fewer characters to share the most incredible and original output without using 2D typesetting constructs or pulling in linked data.
Bailey Long, Technical Communications Specialist, Outreach & Communications Shadi Ashnai, Manager of Sound & Vision, Algorithms R&D
Best of Blog

Announcing the 2024 Wolfram Innovator Award Winners

Each year, Wolfram seeks out computational innovators and honors their work during the Wolfram Technology Conference with the Wolfram Innovator Awards. It is a pleasure to see creativity and technology concentrated in these projects that break boundaries and push others to ask “What’s possible?”

Without further ado, we present and congratulate the 2024 Wolfram Innovator Award winners.
Bailey Long, Technical Communications Specialist, Outreach & Communications
Show More