Announcements

J/Link 1.1 is now available for download. The new J/Link offers the entire source code for examination, large performance gains on most platforms, and a more detailed User Guide...
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/jlink

The Fourth International Mathematica Symposium (IMS 2001) will be held at the Chiba Campus of Tokyo Denki University, Japan, June 25-27, 2001. The deadline for preregistration and for submission of abstracts is December 31, 2000...
http://ba.sie.dendai.ac.jp/ims2001

IBM has recently released techexplorer 3.0, a web browser plug-in for rendering MathML. A technology exchange between IBM and Wolfram Research gives techexplorer users a unique level of interoperability with Mathematica...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/techexplorer.html

Our "Mathematica in Engineering" solutions section has been completely redesigned. The enhanced site includes relevant information for engineers on Mathematica features, products, resources, problem solving, and more...
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/engineering

A Mathematica graphic by Michael Trott is featured in the School of Visual Arts Eighth Annual Digital Salon competition...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/digitalsalon.html
A special promotion is currently being offered on the Graphica Book Series in which the image also appears...
http://www.graphica.com/series

Mathematica French and German Language Kits will soon be available. Each system add-on provides a full French or German user interface and documentation for Mathematica so that users can work more comfortably in their own language...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/special/flk http://www.wolfram.com/products/special/glk

Visit the training calendar at http://www.wolfram.com/services/training/calendar.html for a listing of upcoming courses and workshops.

New Books

Schaum's Outlines of Theory and Problems of Mathematica by Eugene Don...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN007135719X.str

Algebra: A Computational Introduction by John Scherk...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1584880643.str

Did you know...?

...it is easy to put Mathematica documents on the web with the HTML export option. To convert an entire notebook into HTML, open the notebook file, click the File menu, select Save As Special->HTML. A dialog box will appear, prompting you for the name of the directory in which to save your file...
http://library.wolfram.com/howtos/html

...in Mathematica 4, you can specify assumptions such as the domain of variables (e.g., Reals, Positive, Rationals) to be used by a function to further simplify expressions. For example, without assumptions, In[1]:= Simplify[Sqrt[n^2]], Out[1]= Sqrt[n^2]. With assumptions, In[2]:= Simplify[Sqrt[n^2], n >= 0], Out[2]= n...
http://documents.wolfram.com/v4/RefGuide/Assumptions.html

...Mathematica comes with over 1,400 built-in functions, but it's also simple to create your own functions for operations that may not be predefined. To define a function in Mathematica, you need to give the function a name, identify the variables, and determine its output. Additional information is at...
http://library.wolfram.com/howtos/functions

In the news...

The W3C MathML standard comes of age with its first dedicated conference, hosted by Wolfram Research, Inc. The conference generated high attendance and extensive discussion of ways to implement this new technology...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/mathmlpostconf.html

An independent assessment of Mathematica published in the latest issue of Computational Statistics found that Mathematica achieves "unparalleled accuracy" as a statistical package...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/statistics.html

Japanese fashion designer Eri Matsui was interviewed about the use of Mathematica in her latest designs, unveiled as part of the 2000 Fall and Winter Tokyo Collection...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/fashionshow.html

Find more news at http://www.wolfram.com/news.