Wolfram Research
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| Wolfram Research, Inc. | |
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| Type | Scientific & Technical Computing Software |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Stephen Wolfram |
| Headquarters | Champaign, Illinois (worldwide headquarters); Oxfordshire, UK (European headquarters); Tokyo, Japan (Asian headquarters); with additional locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; & Paris, France. |
| Key people | President, Stephen Wolfram |
| Industry | Computer software, Publishing, Research and Development |
| Products | Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica |
| Owner | Privately held |
| Employees | 300+ |
| Divisions | Wolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Japan. |
| Website | www.wolfram.com |
Wolfram Research is an international company that summarizes its aim as "Pushing the Envelope of Technical Computing". The main product of Wolfram Research is Mathematica, an environment for technical computing. The founder and CEO of Wolfram Research is Stephen Wolfram, scientist and author, who maintains close involvement with the development of Mathematica.
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[edit] Software
The primary software product of Wolfram Research is the program Mathematica, which has just, as of May 2007, undergone an upgrade with version 6 that the company describes as "the most important upgrade in the application’s 20-year history."[1] Other products include Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, and webMathematica.
[edit] Publishing
Wolfram Research publishes The Mathematica Journal and has published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm[2]: A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Graphica 1: The Imaginary Made Real by Michael Trott, and Graphica 2: The Pattern of Beauty by Igor Bakshee [3].
[edit] Public services
In addition to its commercial products, Wolfram Research publishes several, free of charge, public services:
- MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedia sites
- The Integrator online calculations
- The Wolfram Functions Site
- MathMLCentral MathML format conversion
- The Wolfram Demonstrations Project educational resources
- WolframTones music generation
[edit] Consulting
Wolfram Research serves as the mathematical consultant for the CBS Television Series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical applications of crime-solving.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Mathematica 6 emerges 'reinvented' by Peter Cohen, MacWorld, May 2, 2007.
- ^ Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science sets a new standard in more ways than one by Charlotte Abbott, Publishers Weekly, 6/24/2002
- ^ Graphica Book Series
[edit] External links
- Wolfram Research, corporate website
- WolframBlog: The Wolfram Research corporate blog, launched May 2007.
- Hoovers Fact Sheet on Wolfram Research, Inc.
- Michael Trott: The Science and Art of Mathematica by Tim McIntyre, Science, Apple.com, 2007.
- The Mathematics Behind NUMB3RS, Wolfram's site on NUMB3RS mathematics.
[edit] External links on corporate history
- Supercomputer Pictures Solve the Once Insoluble, John Markoff, The New York Times, October 30, 1988
- Meet an Inventor Whose Product Makes Complex Calculus Simple by Gautam Naik, The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 1996
- Stephen Wolfram's Simple Science by Michael Arndt, Business Week, May 17, 2002.
- Wolfram releases 'revolutionary' Mathematica 6: Mathematica 6 developer promises a 'revolution in computing' by Jonny Evans, MacWorld, May 2, 2007.
