Stephen Wolfram is currently giving a series of lectures around the U.S., discussing the ideas and discoveries in A New Kind of Science, his best-selling book. For dates and locations...
http://www.wolframscience.com/appearances

A New Kind of Science Explorer is now available. This stand-alone Mathematica-powered software lets you experience the discoveries of A New Kind of Science on your own computer...
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksx

The 2003 Mathematica Developer Conference will be held April 10-12, 2003, in Champaign, Illinois. Abstracts and registration are currently being accepted...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/devconf2003

The fifth International Mathematica Symposium will take place at Imperial College, London, in July 2003. Speakers include Stephen Wolfram, John F. Nash, Bruno Buchberger, and Roman Maeder. MATHwire subscribers have until December 15, 2002, to submit abstracts; all other proposals are due by March 15, 2003...
http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/ims03

A new issue of The Mathematica Journal, Volume 8 (4), is now available. Subscribe online for electronic and/or print access for you or your organization...
http://www.mathematica-journal.com/issue/v8i4

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, papers, 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

Derivatives Expert III includes major new features such as integration with SQL databases like Oracle, pricing with Monte Carlo simulation, and several new exotic options...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/derivatives

machine learning framework helps you extract understandable computational models from data and can be a powerful tool for all types of data mining and machine learning applications...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/mlf

The updated UnRisk PRICING ENGINE, Version 1.6, offers the ability to use nonconstant credit spreads and forward-start options, as well as adds new functionality to Mathematica Link for Excel...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/unrisk

Computational Financial Mathematics Using Mathematica: Optimal Trading in Stocks and Options by Srdjan Stojanovic...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0817641971.str

Mathematica for Physics, second edition, by Robert L. Zimmerman and Fredrick I. Olness...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0805387005.str

Mathematica 4.2 contains the new standard add-on package NumericalMath`NMinimize`, which provides four different methods for global optimization: differential evolution (genetic programming), Nelder-Mead (nonlinear simplex algorithm), simulated annealing, and random search...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin42/nminimize.html

Mathematica uses a high-precision arithmetic model, formally known as significance or range arithmetic, which approximates interval arithmetic--where a single floating-point number is used to represent the number and its error. For more on numerics, accuracy, and precision in Mathematica, see the Numerics in Mathematica demo...
http://library.wolfram.com/demos

Tesla's Tornado is the name of William McHargue's BattleBot, which was modeled in Mathematica and was recently featured in Mechanical Engineering magazine...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/battlebots.html

Abby Brown and Torrey Pines High School are pushing the limits of traditional learning with Mathematica...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/abbybrown.html

Long-time Mathematica user and computational scientist Richard Crandall keeps in "prime" condition with Mathematica...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/crandall.html