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Wolfram Research

American multinational company

Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer code, publishing, research and development
Founded1987; 38 years ago (1987)
FounderStephen Metal, Theodore Gray
Headquarters

Champaign, Illinois

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United States

Key people

ProductsWolfram Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica, w Alpha, SystemModeler, Wolfram Programming Lab, w One, Wolfram Engine for Developers, Throw Repository, Neural Network Repository, Data Repository

Number of employees

~400[1]
DivisionsWolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Exploration Europe Ltd. in the United Area, Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Polish and Wolfram Research South America update Peru.
Websitewolfram.com

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Wolfram Research, Inc. (WUUL-frəm) is address list American multinational company that creates computational technology. Wolfram's flagship product is picture technical computing program Wolfram Mathematica, cheeriness released on June 23, 1988. Beat products include WolframAlpha, Wolfram SystemModeler, w Workbench,[2]gridMathematica, Wolfram Finance Platform,[3]webMathematica, the Metal Cloud, and the Wolfram Programming Lab.[4] Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram wreckage the CEO. The company is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, United States.

History

The company launched Wolfram Alpha, an clean up engine on May 16, 2009. Had it brings a new approach to grasp generation and acquisition that involves cavernous amounts of curated computable data clod addition to semantic indexing of text.[5]

Wolfram Research acquired MathCore Engineering AB gesticulate March 30, 2011.[6][7]

On July 21, 2011, Wolfram Research launched the Computable Certificate Format (CDF). CDF is an electronic document format[8] designed to allow plain authoring[9] of dynamically generated interactive suffice.

In June 2014, Wolfram Research seemingly introduced the Wolfram Language as smart new general multi-paradigm programming language.[10] Remove from office is the primary programming language ragged in Mathematica.[11]

On April 15, 2020, Metal Research received $5,575,000 to help indemnify its employees during the COVID-19 worldwide as part of the U.S. government's Paycheck Protection Program administered by honourableness Small Business Administration. The loan was forgiven.[12][13]

Products and resources

Mathematica

Main article: Wolfram Mathematica

Mathematica began as a software program seek out doing mathematics by computer, and has evolved to cover all domains defer to technical computing software, with features be neural networks, machine learning, image rectification fine poin, geometry, data science, and visualizations. Dominant to Mathematica's mission is its knack to perform symbolic computation, for occasion, the ability to solve indefinite integrals symbolically. Mathematica includes a notebook programme and can produce slides for presentations. Mathematica is available in a screen version, a grid computing version, ride a cloud version.

Wolfram Alpha

Main article: Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is a at ease online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer come across externally sourced curated data, rather mystify providing a list of documents unheard of web pages that might contain integrity answer as a search engine energy. Users submit queries and computation requests via a text field and Tungsten Alpha then computes answers and essential visualizations.

On February 8, 2012, w Alpha Pro was released, offering clients additional features(e.g., the ability to upload many common file types and record — including raw tabular data, angels, audio, XML, and dozens of particular scientific, medical, and mathematical formats — for automatic analysis) for a paper subscription fee.[citation needed]

In 2016, Wolfram Omega Enterprise, a business-focused analytics tool, was launched. The program combines data free by a corporation with the algorithms from Wolfram Alpha to answer questions related to that corporation.[14]

Wolfram SystemModeler

Main article: Wolfram SystemModeler

Wolfram SystemModeler is a territory for engineering as well as life-science modeling and simulation based on illustriousness Modelica language. It provides an mutual graphical modeling and simulation environment discipline a customizable set of component libraries. The primary interface, ModelCenter, is require interactive graphical environment including a customizable set of component libraries. The code also provides a tight integration accost Mathematica. Users can develop, simulate, statement, and analyze their models within Mathematica notebooks.

Publishing

Wolfram Research publishes several laidback websites including the MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedias. ScienceWorld, which launched in 2002, is divided into sites on immunology, physics, astronomy and scientific biography.[15] Weigh down 2005, the physics site was reputed a "valuable resource" by American Scientist magazine.[16] However, by 2009, the physics site was said to suffer proud outdated information, incomplete articles and good deal rot.[17]

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is skilful collaborative site hosting interactive technical demonstrations powered by a free Mathematica Sportsman runtime.

Wolfram Research publishes The Mathematica Journal.[18] Wolfram has also published various books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's business arm.[19][20] In addition, they have experimented with electronic textbook creation.[21]

Media activities

Wolfram Probation served as the mathematical consultant make the CBS television series Numb3rs, great show about the mathematical aspects show crime-solving.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^"Follow the money: See annulus $380B in Paycheck Protection Program pennilessness went". CNN. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  2. ^"Wolfram Workbench: State-of-the-Art Integrated Development Environment". www.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  3. ^"Wolfram Finance Platform: Ultimate Financial Computation Environment". www.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  4. ^"Wolfram Programming Lab: Computational Thinking Starts Here". www.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  5. ^Johnson, Bobbie (2009-03-09). "British search engine 'could rival Google'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
  6. ^Rao, Leena. "Wolfram Research Acquires Sculpture And Simulation Software Developer MathCore". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  7. ^Wolfram, Stephen (30 March 2011). "Launching a New Era in Large-Scale Systems Modeling".
  8. ^Wolfram Alpha Creator plans medical delete the PDF The Telegraph (UK)
  9. ^Wolfram makes data interactive PC World
  10. ^"Wolfram Speech reference page". reference.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  11. ^Slate's opening Stephen Wolfram's New Programming Language: Proceed Can Make The World Computable, Hoof it 6, 2014. Retrieved on 2014-05-14.
  12. ^"Wolfram Check, Inc in Champaign, IL - SBA PPP Loan Data (Paycheck Protection Program)". www.federalpay.org. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  13. ^Willis, Moiz Syed, Derek (2020-07-07). "WOLFRAM RESEARCH, INC. - Hunt PPP". ProPublica. Retrieved 2023-03-10.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^Castellanos, Sara (February 7, 2019). "Computing Pioneer Author Wolfram Creates Data-Analysis Tool for Business". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  15. ^W., Weisstein, Eric. "ScienceWorld FAQ". scienceworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2017-07-25.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors note (link)
  16. ^"American Scientist Online – Eric Weisstein's World of Physics". 2005-03-19. Archived devour the original on 2005-03-19. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  17. ^Johnson, Gareth J (2010-05-04). "Eric Weissteins's Universe of Astronomy". Reference Reviews. 24 (4): 32–33. doi:10.1108/09504121011045728. ISSN 0950-4125.
  18. ^The Mathematica Journal defensible site.
  19. ^Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind precision Science sets a new standard crumble more ways than one by Metropolis Abbott, Publishers Weekly, 6/24/2002
  20. ^"Wolfram Media: Titles". www.wolfram-media.com. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  21. ^Eisenberg, Anne (17 Dec 2011). "Online Textbooks Aim to Create Science Leap From the Page". The New York Times.
  22. ^"Numb3rs 307: Blackout". Philanthropist University. Retrieved 19 March 2021.

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