Wolfram Research
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Wolfram Research, Inc. (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) is an American multinational company that creates computational technology. Wolfram's flagship product is the technical computing program Wolfram Mathematica, first released on June 23, 1988. Other products include WolframAlpha, Wolfram System Modeler, Wolfram Workbench,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> gridMathematica, Wolfram Finance Platform,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> webMathematica, the Wolfram Cloud, and the Wolfram Programming Lab.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram is the CEO. The company is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, United States.
History
The company launched Wolfram Alpha, an answer engine on May 16, 2009. It brings a new approach to knowledge generation and acquisition that involves large amounts of curated computable data in addition to semantic indexing of text.<ref>Template:Cite news </ref>
Wolfram Research acquired MathCore Engineering AB on March 30, 2011.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
On July 21, 2011, Wolfram Research launched the Computable Document Format (CDF). CDF is an electronic document format<ref>Wolfram Alpha Creator plans to delete the PDF The Telegraph (UK)</ref> designed to allow easy authoring<ref>Wolfram makes data interactive PC World</ref> of dynamically generated interactive content.
In June 2014, Wolfram Research officially introduced the Wolfram Language as a new general multi-paradigm programming language.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is the primary programming language used in Mathematica.<ref>Slate's article Stephen Wolfram's New Programming Language: He Can Make The World Computable, March 6, 2014. Retrieved on 2014-05-14.</ref>
On April 15, 2020, Wolfram Research received $5,575,000 to help pay its employees during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the U.S. government's Paycheck Protection Program administered by the Small Business Administration. The loan was forgiven.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Products and resources
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Mathematica
Template:Main Mathematica began as a software program for doing mathematics by computer, and has evolved to cover all domains of technical computing software, with features for neural networks, machine learning, image processing, geometry, data science, and visualizations. Central to Mathematica's mission is its ability to perform symbolic computation, for example, the ability to solve indefinite integrals symbolically. Mathematica includes a notebook interface and can produce slides for presentations. Mathematica is available in a desktop version, a grid computing version, and a cloud version.
Wolfram Alpha
Template:Main Wolfram Alpha is a free online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced curated data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might. Users submit queries and computation requests via a text field and Wolfram Alpha then computes answers and relevant visualizations. In 2012, a paid "Pro" level with additional features was released.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In 2016, Wolfram Alpha Enterprise, a business-focused analytics tool, was launched. The program combines data supplied by a corporation with the algorithms from Wolfram Alpha to answer questions related to that corporation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Wolfram System Modeler
Template:Main Wolfram System Modeler is a platform for engineering as well as life-science modeling and simulation based on the Modelica language. It provides an interactive graphical modeling and simulation environment and a customizable set of component libraries. The primary interface, ModelCenter, is an interactive graphical environment including a customizable set of component libraries. The software also provides a tight integration with Mathematica. Users can develop, simulate, document, and analyze their models within Mathematica notebooks.
Publishing
Wolfram Research publishes several free websites including the MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedias. ScienceWorld, which launched in 2002, is divided into sites on chemistry, physics, astronomy and scientific biography.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2005, the physics site was deemed a "valuable resource" by American Scientist magazine.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> However, by 2009, the astronomy site was said to suffer from outdated information, incomplete articles and link rot.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is a collaborative site hosting interactive technical demonstrations powered by a free Mathematica Player runtime.
Wolfram Research publishes The Mathematica Journal.<ref>The Mathematica Journal official site.</ref> Wolfram has also published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm.<ref>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</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In addition, they have experimented with electronic textbook creation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Media activities
Wolfram Research served as the mathematical consultant for the CBS television series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical aspects of crime-solving.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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External links
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- Official Wolfram Research Twitter Account
- Hoovers Fact Sheet on Wolfram Research, Inc.
- The Mathematics Behind NUMB3RS, Wolfram's site on NUMB3RS mathematics.