Announcements

Register now for the 2001 Mathematica Developer Conference, to be held October 11-13 in Champaign, Illinois. A listing of tentative talk topics is available. Check back for more conference updates...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/devconf2001/talks

The updated Wolfram Research Documentation Center is now online. A collection of reference materials about Mathematica, CalculationCenter, and related products, the site provides a convenient way to access the software documentation without ever leaving the web...
http://documents.wolfram.com

Wolfram Education Group offers certified Mathematica training to individuals and corporations. Watch for October classes in Denver, Baltimore, Dallas, and Phoenix. Online registration and additional information about Wolfram Education Group are available...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/training/education

The Fourth International Mathematica Symposium (IMS 2001) was held in June at the Chiba Campus of Tokyo Denki University. Mathematica notebooks from selected conference presentations have been posted online...
http://library.wolfram.com/conferences/IMS2001

New Books

In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery.
This charming book by the then 16-year-old 1999 Irish Young Scientist of the Year, who used Mathematica to devise a highly innovative encryption system, has now been published in the United States, Korea, China, and Japan...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761123849

Visual Quantum Mechanics by Bernd Thaller.
The software for this book, which includes hundreds of Mathematica notebooks, won a 2000 European Academic Software Award (EASA) for outstanding innovation...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0387989293.str

Did you know...?

...the standard add-on package Graphics`Legend` lets you easily create legends to aid in data interpretation. If you are creating a two-dimensional plot using the Plot or MultipleListPlot command, you can add a legend to your graph by using the PlotLegend option. When using most other graphics commands, such as LogPlot, ListPlot, and Show, use the ShowLegend command...
http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/kernel/Symbols/Graphics/Legend/ShowLegend.html
http://library.wolfram.com/howtos/legends

...it is possible to run external programs from within Mathematica on almost all computer systems. You can use Mathematica to control external C or Java programs or to exchange information and data with these programs. Ways of running your external programs from Mathematica and setting up the MathLink communications API are discussed online...
http://library.wolfram.com/howtos/ccode
http://library.wolfram.com/packages/jlink

In the news...

Wolfram Research was a title sponsor of the 42nd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) held July 1-14, 2001, in Washington, D.C. Competition results are now available at the official IMO scoring site (see http://imo.wolfram.com) hosted by Wolfram Research...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/imo2001medals.html

AnalyticCycling.com is a recreational web site powered by Wolfram Research's new webMathematica engine. It offers web-based calculators that take a no-compromise, textbook approach to computing cycling performance...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/analyticcycling.html