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Mathematica to go Web 2.0

The O'Reilly School of Technology (a partnership between the University of Illinois and O'Reilly Media) will begin offering online courses using a new AJAX-based implementation of Mathematica. According to an article on the O'Reilly School's website, [The Web 2.0 version of Mathematica] will have extremely high...

Tags: Web, Wolfram Research, Mathematica, AJAX, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Why Mathematica violates basic rules of math conduct

Why Mathematica violates basic rules of math conductOr......be prepared to explain how to do the work without the proprietary software in question. I wouldn't accept a theorem as proved just because Mathematica says it is, but proper mathematical software (and I've never used Mathematica) should be able to output...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Reproducibility, programming interface, Mathematica, basic rule

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

Is software a form of applied mathematics?

Is software a form of applied mathematics?Eh??!?!?!!Maple is a tree.Mathematica is a typo (those "A" and "S" are just too close...);-)Not quite rightBoth M's are symbolic manipulators built on other languages.That doesn't mean they're not scripting languages, it does mean they differ in nature from APL.Maple and Mathematica not computer...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, patent, computer language, software, mathematics, MAPLE, Mathematica

Discussion threads 2007-06-04

Mathematica 6 released

My last post today on Maple 11 noted that the install of this great piece of software under Ubuntu was not exactly seamless and that it just wasnt going to happen under Vista for awhile. Enter Wolfram Research, probably Maples most significant competitor, with a new release promising Vista...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Resurrection Time?

Sun has a large group led by Guy Steele working on a language called "Fortress" -something they describe as "Java for scientists, Java for the programmers of a peta-scale supercomputer." Java started out as a hardware abstraction layer for set top TV boxes aimed at using the TV to provide...

Tags: Java, APL

Blog posts 2005-08-25

Additional Resources

And score 1 more for Google in Ed Tech

While Google has committed to continuing its partnership with Harvard University, the New York Public Library, various publishers, and a variety of groups to scan and digitize their books, Microsoft has bowed out of this market. The Los Angeles Times reported that Microsoft Corp. is ending...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Business Structures, Channel Management, Internet, Search, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-26

Technology and the costs of change

Technology and the costs of changeMissing linkOne link which might solidify your thinking is to consider not the cost or the size of the change ... but its impact on customers. It is surely this link which one tries to firm up in writing a business case. It is the...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Unix, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Can you see yourself running Windows Vista in 2014?

Can you see yourself running Windows Vista in 2014?I view it as a vote againstLinux. The fact that so many people are saying that they are holding out on Vista to wait until Windows 7 is odd, as you would think the response would have been that they are going...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Fedora Project, Fedora 9

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

I hate eigenvectors

I'm only a couple months from wrapping up a masters degree in math. The program has been great and has catered to a cohort of educators who are all seeking to drastically improve math education in our respective schools and communities. However, every time I hear the prefix...

Tags: Google Inc., Eigenvalue, Search, Engineering, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Microsoft to build an 'Emacs.Net' text editor

Microsoft to build an 'Emacs.Net' text editorIts a terminal-based multifunction text editorI think it is going to be advanced text editor which is extendable.What Microsoft really lack is a decent text editor that can be run inside the four wall of the terminal console/Command Prompt. As sysadmin do more and...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Notepad, Emacs.Net, EMACS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-31

Sage - not a piece of cake, but powerful and open

Developed at the University of Washington, with contributions from mathematicians worldwide, Sage is a relatively new open-source tool designed to supplant proprietary mathematical analysis programs like Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica. All of these programs are mainstays of most mathematicians' toolkits, but have recently come under scrutiny because of the...

Tags: Software, Notebook, Theory, Python, Sage, Tools & Techniques, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-09

Why Mathematica violates basic rules of math conduct

In an editorial published by the American Mathematical Society, mathematicians from the US Naval Academy and the University of Washington noted that, because so much mathematical research is now conducted using proprietary software like Mathematica, much of the ability to meaningfully review such research is being lost. As the...

Tags: Software, Mathematics, Mathematician, Tools & Techniques, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Algolab Raster to Vector Conversion Toolkit (exe)

Vectorizer for CAD/CAM/GIS professionals, designers and illustrators. Available also as Raster to Vector SDK, ActiveX and Com Component. Converts, digitizes and refines architectural, mechanical, various technical drawings, maps, math graphs, graphics for books and journals and more from raster to vector. Digitizes math graphics. Also refines vector graphics, creates fine...

Tags: Raster, Graphics, CAD, Scanners, Software, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2007-11-19

Students Integrate Tablet PCs Into High School Math Curriculum to Improve Learning

Torrey Pines High School wanted to integrate Wolfram Research's Mathematica 6.0 technical computing software into its curriculum to answer the needs of its advanced mathematics students. Microsoft and Lenovo partnered with Wolfram Research and deployed 30 Tablet PCs running the Windows Vista operating system for the students' full-time use. While...

Tags: PC, Tablet PC, Student, Wolfram Research, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Case studies 2007-09-10

The (IEED) development environment

The critical development work for our research company is going to get done via notes jotted on paper or blackboards with help from packages like Mathematica, and therefore won't actually affect us IT grunts until the researchers start to produce prototype code. When that happens, however, at least one...

Tags: Linux, Fortran, Compiler, Cell, Development Environment, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-08-08

The (IEED) development environment

The IEED development environmentSo then, Murph...... when you say [i]"because “Plan b” is C and it’s almost as bad an answer as trying to hand optimise the intermediates produced by the IBM Fortran compiler"[/i] you are saying that one of your favourite company's Sun best known products Java isn't up...

Tags: Programming languages, development environment, Redundancy, environment, Murph, Fortran

Discussion threads 2007-08-08

What happened to HP calculators?

I have to go buy a new calculator for my combinatorics class, as well as for the physics classes I'm teaching next year. While my old HP 48G still works, it lacks the connectivity options I need for in-class demos and it's painfully slow. To HP's credit, it...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Is software a form of applied mathematics?

Last week's licensing discussions sprouted an interesting, if off topic, thread on a number of computer language related issues. One of the issues raised strikes me as fairly fundamental: is software a form of applied mathematics?Here's how occasional contributor b3timmons stated one side of this argument in response to...

Tags: Development

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Stephen Wolfram: Reinventing Mathematica

I remember when Mathematica came on the scene in 1988. It worked on a Macintosh and was far beyond any math program that came before. Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of the Wolfram Research, got his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech when he was 20, and focused on...

Tags: Science, General

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Revenge of the calculators

Revenge of the calculatorsFantasticIm a 16 yr old, yr 11 student in Australia.This is a fantastic, 100% correct article.At school last year, i studied the accelerated maths course, meaning we studied the IGSCE equivilent or one year ahead.Without a basic algebraic and arithmetic knowledge, which can be implented quickly you...

Tags: Calculators, calculator

Discussion threads 2007-01-28