Announcements

Mathematica network licenses are now shipping. Using the MathLM license manager, Mathematica can be floated throughout an organization on an as-needed basis while simplifying program installation and administration...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/network

Wolfram Research is sponsoring the first "MathML and Math on the Web" conference, to be held October 20-21, 2000, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A call for papers involving MathML has been issued...
http://www.mathmlconference.org

Operations Research is a new Mathematica application for solving problems in linear optimization, shortest path tasks, and combinatorial optimization...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/operationsresearch

The application package Global Optimization 3.0, a collection of functions for global nonlinear optimization, is now shipping. Product information has been updated...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/globalopt

The Rocky Mountain Mathematica instructional courses, for teachers of mathematics and other scientific subjects, will be held in Frisco, Colorado, from July 10-15, 2000. Course descriptions and additional information are available...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/training/calendar.html#rockymountain

Wolfram Research has adopted a more affordable purchase program for community college campuses and established a new web site dedicated to community college educators...
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/commcoll

To allow for further expansion, Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. will be moving to new offices effective April 17, 2000. Please update your records with our new contact information...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/wralmove.html

Did you know...?

...Wolfram Research offers access to accredited Mathematica trainers and consultants. The listings have recently been enhanced with current company or individual names, geographic locations, and areas of specialization...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/training

...you can select from a range of existing style sheets or edit one to create your own. Style sheet selection and editing options can be found in the Format menu. To make a customized style sheet available for use in other Mathematica notebooks, save it in your Mathematica system files under FrontEnd/StyleSheets. View Mathematica style sheet options...
http://documents.wolfram.com/v4/index337.html

...Mathematica is unique in intelligently adjusting the precision (the number of significant digits) of your output to be consistent with the precision of your input and the calculations performed. To set the input precision explicitly, you can use the number mark ` (backquote). Numerical precision is discussed in Section 3.1.4 of The Mathematica Book... http://documents.wolfram.com/v4/index403.html

In the news...

Wolfram Research is the corporate sponsor for Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM), April 2000, the goal of which is to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/mam2000.html

Stephen Wolfram, Mathematica creator and Wolfram Research CEO, was interviewed in the March 20, 2000, Chicago Tribune about his new science work (see http://www.wolframscience.com). The article, "Genius Teams Up with Computer," is also online...

Scientists at CERN recently made progress in creating quark-gluon plasmas that promise further insights into the early evolution of the universe. Learn about the role Mathematica played in the experiments...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/cern.html

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