Wolfram Research is a private company that makes computation software. The founder and CEO of Wolfram Research is Stephen Wolfram, scientist and author, who maintains close involvement with the development of Mathematica.
The primary software product of Wolfram Research is the program Mathematica, an environment for technical computing, which has, as of November 2010, undergone an upgrade to version 8. Other products include Wolfram SystemModeler, Wolfram Workbench, Mathematica Link for Excel, gridMathematica, and webMathematica.
The company launched Wolfram Alpha, an answer engine on 16 May 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.
Wolfram Research served as the mathematical consultant for the CBS television series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical aspects of crime-solving.
Wolfram Research acquired MathCore Engineering AB on March 30, 2011.
On July 21, 2011 Wolfram Research launched the Computable Document Format (CDF). CDF is an electronic document format designed to allow easy authoring of dynamically generated interactive content.
Read more about Wolfram Research: Publications
Famous quotes containing the word research:
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)