Wolfram Research

Wolfram Research, Inc. <tr class="logo"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; padding:16px 0 16px 0;"> </td> </tr><tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Type</th> <td>Scientific & Technical Computing Software</td> </tr> <tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Founded</th> <td>1987</td> </tr> <tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Founder</th> <td>Stephen Wolfram</td> </tr><tr> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Headquarters</th> <td class="adr">Champaign, Illinois (worldwide headquarters); Oxfordshire, UK (European headquarters); Tokyo, Japan (Asian headquarters); with additional locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; & Paris, France.</td> </tr> <tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th> <td>President, Stephen Wolfram</td> </tr><tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th> <td>Computer software, Publishing, Research and Development</td> </tr><tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Products</th> <td>Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica</td> </tr><tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Owner</th> <td>Privately held</td> </tr><tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Employees</th> <td>300+</td> </tr><tr class="note"> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Divisions</th> <td>Wolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Japan.</td> </tr><tr> <th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th> <td class="url">www.wolfram.com</td> </tr>

[edit] Software

The primary software product of Wolfram Research is the program Mathematica, which has just, as of May 2007, undergone an upgrade with version 6 that the company describes as "the most important upgrade in the application’s 20-year history."^[1] Other products include Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, and webMathematica.

[edit] Publishing

Wolfram Research publishes The Mathematica Journal and has published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm^[2]: A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Graphica 1: The Imaginary Made Real by Michael Trott, and Graphica 2: The Pattern of Beauty by Igor Bakshee ^[3].

[edit] Public services

In addition to its commercial products, Wolfram Research publishes several, free of charge, public services:

• MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedia sites
• The Integrator online calculations
• The Wolfram Functions Site
• MathMLCentral MathML format conversion
• The Wolfram Demonstrations Project educational resources
• WolframTones music generation

[edit] Consulting

Wolfram Research serves as the mathematical consultant for the CBS Television Series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical applications of crime-solving.

[edit] See also

• Mathematica
• Stephen Wolfram
• A New Kind of Science
• MathWorld
• Eric W. Weisstein
• Ed Pegg, Jr.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Wolfram Research, corporate website
• WolframBlog: The Wolfram Research corporate blog, launched May 2007.
• Hoovers Fact Sheet on Wolfram Research, Inc.
• Michael Trott: The Science and Art of Mathematica by Tim McIntyre, Science, Apple.com, 2007.
• The Mathematics Behind NUMB3RS, Wolfram's site on NUMB3RS mathematics.

[edit] External links on corporate history

• Supercomputer Pictures Solve the Once Insoluble, John Markoff, The New York Times, October 30, 1988
• Meet an Inventor Whose Product Makes Complex Calculus Simple by Gautam Naik, The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 1996
• Stephen Wolfram's Simple Science by Michael Arndt, Business Week, May 17, 2002.
• Wolfram releases 'revolutionary' Mathematica 6: Mathematica 6 developer promises a 'revolution in computing' by Jonny Evans, MacWorld, May 2, 2007.