MATHwire
News for the Mathematica Community
December 2002
Announcements
The new gridMathematica provides a complete parallel computing
solution for grids or clusters. It offers a highly cost-effective
way of deploying Mathematica for parallel computations...
http://www.wolfram.com/gridmathematica
For the entire month of December, Wolfram Research is offering
free ground shipping in the U.S. and Canada on all individual
product purchases and upgrades totaling $50 or more. For gift-giving suggestions, visit our website...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/holiday
Neural Networks is a new Mathematica application package that
provides a robust environment for modeling and predicting data...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/neuralnetworks
Mathematica Teacher's Edition, a new product designed especially
for high school teachers and community college professors, is now
available for Mac OS X and is part of Apple's recently announced
Math Curriculum Mobile Lab...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/mteforosx.html
The 2003 Mathematica Developer Conference will be held April
10-12, 2003, in Champaign, Illinois. Early-bird registration ends
March 1, so register online soon...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/devconf2003
The fifth International Mathematica Symposium will take place at
Imperial College in London, England, July 7-11, 2003. The submission
deadline for remaining materials is March 15, 2003...
http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/ims03
Register your Mathematica or other Wolfram Research product
license and receive one of several free posters...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/posters.html
Wolfram Education Group is now offering two new courses: Working
with Data Using Mathematica and Programming in Mathematica. Find
out more, including schedules and registration information, at...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/education/courses/calendar.html
Submit your nonproprietary journal or conference articles,
web links, or other Mathematica-related success stories
to experience@wolfram.com. If we feature your work on our
website, we'll send you a Mathematica T-shirt...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/experience
Featured New Book
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis Using
Mathematica by Henry C. Foley...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0122619129.str
Did you know...?
...The new bundled AuthorTools package in Mathematica 4.2
simplifies the creation of technical books and articles, offering
palettes for such functions as indexing and cross-referencing.
In Mathematica, go to File -> Palettes ->
OpenAuthorTools...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin42/publishing.html
...Mathematica 4.2 fully supports import and export of MathML
2.0. For example, you can copy and paste expressions directly
between a website and your Mathematica notebook. Try it yourself
with the MathML tools at MathML Central...
http://www.mathmlcentral.com
...Mathematica 4.2 supports FITS and SDTS, two new data formats
that improve Mathematica's capability for the fields of
astronomical data processing and spatial data analysis...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin42/import.html
In the news...
Mathematica 4.2 is the winner of Macworld's 18th Annual
Editors' Choice Award in the Science/Engineering Software category...
http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/features/eddy
Wolfram Research, Inc. and NEC Corporation are collaborating to
port Mathematica 4.2 to the Itanium Linux platform, providing a
true 64-bit computing environment for demanding enterprise and
technical computing applications...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/itanium.html
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, founder and CEO of
Wolfram Research, and author of this year's best-selling A New
Kind of Science, was named 2002 Scientist of the Year by R&D
Magazine in its November issue...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/rdscientist.html
Stephen Wolfram has been nominated for three Rave Awards by WIRED
magazine, in the categories of Author, Scientist, and Renegade of
the Year. The Rave Awards were developed to celebrate innovation
and the individuals transforming commerce and culture...
http://www.raveawards.com
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