MATHwire
News for the Mathematica Community
August 2004
Announcements
Just Released: A new approach to technical papers and reports,
Wolfram Publicon uses Mathematica technology to make it easy
to
create and structure technical documents in online, web, and
print formats...
http://www.wolfram.com/publicon
The GUIKit user interface development tool is now available,
following a very successful beta program...
http://www.wolfram.com/guikit
webMathematica Author aids in the creation and development of
JavaServer Pages (JSP) for use with webMathematica...
http://www.wolfram.com/webmathematicaauthor
The Wolfram Education Group has several new courses for
Mathematica users at all levels, and now offers courses
online...
http://www.wolfram.com/weg/calendar
Featured Application Packages
machine learning framework 1.2 comes with a range of new
functions and a higher-level interface that allows users to
perform routine tasks in an easier way...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/mlf
MathModelica 2.1 is a powerful engineering tool for virtual model
building and simulation of all kinds of physical systems...
http://www.wolfram.com/applications/mathmodelica
UnRisk PRICING ENGINE 2 accelerates high-end derivatives
analytics for Mathematica...
http://www.wolfram.com/applications/unrisk
Upcoming Events
The Wolfram Technology Conference on October 21-23, 2004, in
Champaign, Illinois will expand on the traditional Developer
Conference, with an exciting program of activities for the full
spectrum of users...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/techconf2004
A special one-day Mathematica Conference will be held in Paris on
October 6, 2004, with talks from senior Wolfram staff and leaders
in the French academic community...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/seminars/paris2004
New in Print
Modeling Random Systems by J.R. Cogdell...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0131414372.str
Did you know...?
...that you can see animations of what ListConvolve,
MapThread, and many other functions do, at...
http://documents.wolfram.com/flash
...that you can immediately close a notebook without saving by
holding down the Shift key when you click the window close
button. The keyboard shortcut is Shift+Ctrl+w (Shift+Cmd+w for
Macintosh).
...Check Balance in the Edit menu highlights matching
parentheses, brackets, or braces in your input. The keyboard
shortcut is Shift+Ctrl+b (Shift+Cmd+b for Macintosh)...
http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/FrontEnd/MenuCommands/EditMenu/CheckBalance.html
...we love contributors? If you have a site or paper that uses
Mathematica, we'd like to hear about it. If you have a
Mathematica notebook or package that you'd like to share, please
consider adding it to the Mathematica Information Center...
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter
In the news...
In the June issue of Desktop Engineering, Barry Simon's annual
Math Resource Guide notes that "Wolfram Research proved us wrong
with Mathematica 5. This new version...had raw numeric speed that
can only be described as revolutionary"....
http://www.deskeng.com/articles/04/june/resourceguide/main_dig.htm
Mathematica "can graph just about anything that the world's lab
rats and chalkboard pilots can put on the right-hand side of an
equal sign," says syndicated technology columnist James Coates...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0407110025jul11,1,3040865.column?coll=chi-technology-nav
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