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=== Neural Network Repository ===
=== Neural Network Repository ===
On June 14, 2018, Wolfram Research officially launched the Wolfram Neural Net Repository.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.wolfram.com/2018/06/14/launching-the-wolfram-neural-net-repository/|title=Launching the Wolfram Neural Net Repository|website=blog.wolfram.com/|access-date=2018-09-11}}</ref> The repository is a public resource that hosts a large collection of both trained and untrained neural network models spanning many categories including [[classification]], [[feature extraction]], [[image processing]], [[Regression analysis|regression]], semantic segmentation, [[speech recognition]], [[object detection]], and [[language model|language modeling]].
On June 14, 2018, Wolfram Research officially launched the Wolfram Neural Net Repository.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.wolfram.com/2018/06/14/launching-the-wolfram-neural-net-repository/|title=Launching the Wolfram Neural Net Repository|website=blog.wolfram.com/|access-date=2018-09-11}}</ref> The repository is a public resource that hosts a large collection of both trained and untrained neural network models spanning many categories including [[classification]], [[feature extraction]], [[image processing]], [[Regression analysis|regression]], semantic segmentation, [[speech recognition]], [[object detection]], and [[language model|language modeling]].

=== Wolfram Engine for Developers ===
On May 21, 2019, Wolfram Research launched the Wolfram Engine for Developers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/launching-today-free-wolfram-engine-for-developers/|title=Launching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
|website=https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/|access-date=2019-07-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wolfram.com/engine/|title=Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
|website=www.wolfram.com|access-date=2019-07-23}}</ref>Designed for pre-production software development, it provides developers with free access to the Wolfram Language and its knowledgebase. The engine is available as a download and runs locally on user’s computers on [[Linux]], [[Macintosh|Mac]], and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] operating systems. The license does not permit output production for commercial or organizational use. Any such production for consumer use requires an upgraded production license.

=== Function Repository ===
On June 11, 2019, the Wolfram Function Repository was officially launched.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/06/11/the-wolfram-function-repository-launching-an-open-platform-for-extending-the-wolfram-language/|title=The Wolfram Function Repository: Launching an Open Platform for Extending the Wolfram Language|website=blog.wolfram.com/|access-date=2019-07-23}}</ref> This public resource allows anyone to contribute functions that can be used in Wolfram Language. Users who opt to submit functions are required to complete detailed documentation—the same documentation used for all functions created by Wolfram Research—to ensure a thorough explanation of the function's intended use. At the time of the official launch, the repository contained more than 500 functions across 26 categories.


== Publishing and Innovation ==
== Publishing and Innovation ==
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They are experimenting with electronic textbook creation.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/business/online-textbooks-aim-to-make-science-leap-from-the-page.html | work=The New York Times | first=Anne | last=Eisenberg | title=Online Textbooks Aim to Make Science Leap From the Page | date=17 December 2011}}</ref>
They are experimenting with electronic textbook creation.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/business/online-textbooks-aim-to-make-science-leap-from-the-page.html | work=The New York Times | first=Anne | last=Eisenberg | title=Online Textbooks Aim to Make Science Leap From the Page | date=17 December 2011}}</ref>

Wolfram Research frequently [[Live streaming|streams]] live events on [[Twitch.tv]]. The events often feature long-time [[Wolfram Language]] users from outside the company demonstrating the benefits of the language through [[Live coding|livecoding]] presentations. Also featured regularly are Wolfram Research developers who demonstrate new functionality and features of the Wolfram Language that they were personally responsible for building.


== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 15:24, 31 July 2019

Wolfram Research, Inc.
OwnerPrivately held
Number of employees
~800
DivisionsWolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in the United Kingdom, Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Japan and Wolfram Research South America in Peru.
Websitewolfram.com

40°05′50″N 88°14′44″W / 40.097128°N 88.245690°W / 40.097128; -88.245690

Wolfram Research is a private company that creates computational technology. Wolfram's flagship product is the

CEO
.

The company launched

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.[1]

Wolfram Research acquired MathCore Engineering AB on March 30, 2011.[2][3]

On July 21, 2011, Wolfram Research launched the Computable Document Format (CDF). CDF is an electronic document format[4] designed to allow easy authoring[5] of dynamically generated interactive content.

In June 2014, Wolfram Research officially introduced the

Mathematica.[7]

Other products include

webMathematica, the Wolfram Development Platform,[10] and the Wolfram Programming Lab.[11]

Wolfram Research served as the mathematical consultant for the

Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical aspects of crime-solving.[12]

Products and resources

Mathematica

Main article: Wolfram Mathematica

Mathematica is a modern

image processing, geometry, data science, visualizations, and others. The system is used in many technical, scientific, engineering, mathematical, and computing fields. In addition to the computational abilities of the system, Mathematica includes a unique and powerful notebook interface
. Computational notebooks can be structured using a hierarchy of cells, which allow for outlining and sectioning of a document and support automatic numbering index creation. Documents can be presented in a slideshow environment for presentations and their contents are represented as Mathematica expressions that can be created, modified or analyzed by Mathematica programs or converted to other formats.

Wolfram|Alpha

Main article:
Wolfram Alpha

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.

On February 8, 2012, Wolfram Alpha Pro was released, offering users additional features(e.g., the ability to upload many common file types and data — including raw tabular data, images, audio, XML, and dozens of specialized scientific, medical, and mathematical formats — for automatic analysis) for a monthly subscription fee.

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. [13]

Wolfram SystemModeler

Main article: Wolfram SystemModeler

Wolfram SystemModeler 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.

Wolfram|One

Announced in 2017 at the annual Collision Conference, Wolfram|One provides the benefits of desktop conveniences for technical computing with built-in functionality to interact with the Wolfram Cloud, its knowledgebase, and APIs in one environment. It is available through both a monthly and annual subscription model for both personal and professional use. For personal use, subscribers are provided features such as 5,000

Wolfram|Alpha
API calls, complimentary upgrades, and can be installed on two desktop machines. Additionally, subscribers are given 2GB of cloud storage. Subscribers to the professional version are given similar features, but up to 8,000 Wolfram|Alpha API calls and 15GB of cloud storage.

Data Repository

In April 2017, Wolfram launched the world’s first computable data repository.[14] The repository is a free public resource that hosts an ever-expanding collection of datasets that are curated and structured as to be immediately used in a wide range of analyses. Data is publicly uploaded from a broad range of sources including governments, academic researchers, and business professionals. Currently, datasets exist in 30 different categories such as chemistry, economics, images, machine learning, and statistics. Anyone can extract the datasets within the repository in various formats or can be accessed and analyzed within the free Wolfram Open Cloud.

Wolfram Challenges

Wolfram Challenges is a free online collection of computational thinking problems designed to provide users with a fun and interactive method of learning. Using the Wolfram Language, the challenges range in levels of difficulty to provide opportunity for beginners through the most seasoned individual, and can range from pure algorithms, real-world questions requiring the use of the Wolfram Knowledgebase, or mathematics. Each challenge maintains a leaderboard tracking various achievements such as shortest code length, fastest time to successfully answer, and the names of everyone who has submitted the correct answer. The challenges are available in Mathematica notebook format and can either be downloaded to your desktop or opened directly in your web browser using the Wolfram Cloud. Users are also given the opportunity to submit their own new challenges for inclusion in the program.

Neural Network Repository

On June 14, 2018, Wolfram Research officially launched the Wolfram Neural Net Repository.

image processing, regression, semantic segmentation, speech recognition, object detection, and language modeling
.

Wolfram Engine for Developers

On May 21, 2019, Wolfram Research launched the Wolfram Engine for Developers.

Mac, and Windows
operating systems. The license does not permit output production for commercial or organizational use. Any such production for consumer use requires an upgraded production license.

Function Repository

On June 11, 2019, the Wolfram Function Repository was officially launched.[18] This public resource allows anyone to contribute functions that can be used in Wolfram Language. Users who opt to submit functions are required to complete detailed documentation—the same documentation used for all functions created by Wolfram Research—to ensure a thorough explanation of the function's intended use. At the time of the official launch, the repository contained more than 500 functions across 26 categories.

Publishing and Innovation

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.[19] In 2005, the physics site was deemed a "valuable resource" by American Scientist magazine.[20] However, by 2009, the astronomy site was said to suffer from outdated information, incomplete articles and link rot.[21]

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.[22] Wolfram has also published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm.[23][24]

Wolfram Research has organized three Wolfram Science conferences in Boston, MA, Washington, D.C. and Burlington, VT in the United States in the years 2003, 2006 and 2007 respectively. Two other independent NKS Midwest conferences have taken place at the Indiana University, Bloomington in 2005 and 2008. Other independent workshops related to NKS research have also been organized overseas, such as JOUAL (Just One Universal Algorithm) at the CNR in Pisa, Italy in 2009.

Wolfram Research hosts the yearly Wolfram Technology Conference in Champaign, IL.[25] During this three-day conference, developers discuss the latest Wolfram technologies for mobile devices, cloud computing, interactive deployment, and more.

Wolfram Research also hosts the Wolfram Data Summit, a high-level gathering of innovators in data science.[26]

They are experimenting with electronic textbook creation.[27]

Wolfram Research frequently

Twitch.tv. The events often feature long-time Wolfram Language users from outside the company demonstrating the benefits of the language through livecoding
presentations. Also featured regularly are Wolfram Research developers who demonstrate new functionality and features of the Wolfram Language that they were personally responsible for building.

See also

References

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  2. ^ Rao, Leena. "Wolfram Research Acquires Modeling And Simulation Software Developer MathCore". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  3. ^ Wolfram, Stephen. "Launching a New Era in Large-Scale Systems Modeling".
  4. ^ Wolfram Alpha Creator plans to delete the PDF The Telegraph (UK)
  5. ^ Wolfram makes data interactive PC World
  6. ^ "Wolfram Language reference page". reference.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  7. ^ Slate's article Stephen Wolfram's New Programming Language: He Can Make The World Computable, March 6, 2014. Retrieved on 2014-05-14.
  8. ^ "Wolfram Workbench: State-of-the-Art Integrated Development Environment". www.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  9. ^ "Wolfram Finance Platform: Ultimate Financial Computation Environment". www.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  10. ^ "Wolfram Development Platform: Introducing a Programming Revolution". www.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  11. ^ "Wolfram Programming Lab: Computational Thinking Starts Here". www.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  12. ^ "Numb3rs 307: Blackout". Cornell University. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  13. ^ Castellanos, Sara (February 7, 2019). "Computing Pioneer Stephen Wolfram Creates Data-Analysis Tool for Business". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  14. ^ "Launching The Wolfram Data Repository: Data Publishing That Really Works". prnewswire.com/. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  15. ^ "Launching the Wolfram Neural Net Repository". blog.wolfram.com/. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  16. ^ "Launching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers". https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/. Retrieved 2019-07-23. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  17. ^ "Free Wolfram Engine for Developers". www.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  18. ^ "The Wolfram Function Repository: Launching an Open Platform for Extending the Wolfram Language". blog.wolfram.com/. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  19. ^ W., Weisstein, Eric. "ScienceWorld FAQ". scienceworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2017-07-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ "American Scientist Online – Eric Weisstein's World of Physics". 2005-03-19. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  21. ISSN 0950-4125
    .
  22. ^ The Mathematica Journal official site.
  23. ^ 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
  24. ^ "Wolfram Media: Titles". www.wolfram-media.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  25. ^ "Wolfram Technology Conference 2016".
  26. ^ "Wolfram Data Summit 2016: Trends & Innovations in the Universe of Data". www.wolframdatasummit.org. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  27. ^ Eisenberg, Anne (17 December 2011). "Online Textbooks Aim to Make Science Leap From the Page". The New York Times.

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