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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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Software
The primary software product of Wolfram Research is the program Mathematica, which has, 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.
Publishing
Wolfram Research publishes the Mathematica journal and has published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm[2].
Public services
In addition to its commercial products, Wolfram Research publishes several, free of charge, public servicesincluding the MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedia sites.
Consulting
Wolfram Research served as the mathematical consultant for the CBS television series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical applications of crime-solving.
See also
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
External links
- Wolfram Research, corporate website
- 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.
- 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.
