MATHwire
News for the Mathematica Community
February 2004
Announcements
Try GUIKit Version 1.0 beta. It provides a high-level
Mathematica
expression syntax for defining a graphical user interface as well
as a runtime environment for deployment...
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/guikit
Now available: Mathematica 5 optimized for AMD64--outperforming
regular Linux versions by up to 50 percent...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/amd64.html
The Mathematica Speaker Assistance Program provides software and
publicity support for Mathematica-related talks, presentations,
seminars, and workshops...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/speakers
Wolfram Education Group now offers online classes for certified
Mathematica training from your office or home on your own
computer...
http://www.wolfram.com/weg/onlineqa.html
Remember that with Premier Service you are eligible for a
15 percent discount on Wolfram Education Group classes, in addition
to many other valuable benefits...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/service
Six new Mathematica T-shirt designs are now available in our web
store. Check out the new colors...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/misc
Upcoming Events
See A New Kind of Science develop at the NKS 2004 Conference
and Minicourse, April 22-25, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts...
http://www.wolframscience.com/conference/2004
The Sixth International Mathematica Symposium (IMS 2004) is
being
held August 2-6, 2004, in Banff, Canada. The Call for Papers has
been issued with initial submissions due by February 29, 2004...
http://www.ims2004.com
Follow the latest directions in technical computing at the
Wolfram Technology Conference, October 21-23, 2004, in Champaign,
Illinois...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/techconf2004
New Online
Stephen Wolfram's groundbreaking book A New Kind of Science is
now online, with complete text and images, full searchability,
30,000+ links, and many other enhanced features...
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline
The new Wolfram Functions Site now includes 87,160 formulas and
10,828 graphics, making it by far the largest collection of
mathematical knowledge about special functions available...
http://functions.wolfram.com
mathworld.wolfram.com, the most visited math site on the web, has
a new look! Many MathWorld notebooks and packages can also be
downloaded for use in Mathematica. Check back often for the
latest updates...
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/4775
The transcript of Stephen Wolfram's invited address from this
year's Joint Mathematics Meetings, "A New Kind of Science and the
Future of Mathematics," is now available online...
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/talks/jmm2004
New in Print
Computational Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics and Graph
Theory with Mathematica by Sriram Pemmaraju and Steven Skiena--providing
extended documentation for the Combinatorica standard
Mathematica package...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0521806860.str
Mathematica by Example, Third Edition, by Martha L. Abell and
James P. Braselton...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0120415631.str
Resolving Conflicts with Mathematica: Algorithms for Two-Person
Games by Morton John Canty...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0121588556.str
Are you writing a Mathematica-based book? Contact us for author
information and materials...
http://www.wolfram.com/company/programs/author
Did you know...?
...you can paste a notebook expression into the Mathematica front
end and have it automatically interpret the expression to create
the notebook...
http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/FrontEnd/MenuCommands/EditMenu/Paste.html
...you can set the EvaluationCompletionAction->"ShowTiming"
option to your notebooks to show evaluation timings in the lower-left corner of your notebook window...
http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/FrontEnd/FrontEndOptions/NotebookOptions/
EvaluationOptions/EvaluationCompletionAction.html
In the news...
"Mathematica 5 is well on its way to becoming an essential part
of every [Operations Research] professional's toolkit for
teaching, research, consulting or simply problem-solving," says
OR/MS Today...
http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/orms-12-03/frswr.html
The state government of Gujarat, India, has made Mathematica a
standard part of the school curriculum. Teachers have already
written a computer science text to facilitate Mathematica
usage...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/gujarat.html
The UN's UNESCO agency has chosen Mathematica technology to help
accomplish the objective of improving programs in science and
technology throughout the 17 Arab states...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/unesco.html
Macworld says that "Significant Speed Improvements Make
[Mathematica] the Last Word in Numbers" in its January 2004
issue...
http://www.macworld.com/2004/01/reviews/mathematica5
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