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There Was a Time before Mathematica…
In a few weeks it’ll be 25 years ago: June 23, 1988—the day Mathematica was launched. Late the night before we were still duplicating floppy disks and stuffing product boxes. But at noon on June 23...
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Celebrating Mathematica’s First Quarter Century
Today it’s exactly a quarter of a century since we launched Mathematica 1.0 on June 23, 1988. Much has come and gone in the world of computing since that time. But I’m pleased to say that through all...
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Something Very Big Is Coming: Our Most Important Technology Project Yet
Computational knowledge. Symbolic programming. Algorithm automation. Dynamic interactivity. Natural language. Computable documents. The cloud. Connected devices. Symbolic ontology. Algorithm discovery....
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Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi
Last week I wrote about our large-scale plan to use new technology we’re building to inject sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. Today I’m pleased to announce a step in that...
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“Happy Holidays”, the Wolfram Language Way
I have the good fortune of knowing many people, which means I end up sending out lots of holiday cards. For many years I used to send out physical cards. But last year, convenience, timeliness and ease...
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Launching the Wolfram Connected Devices Project
Connected devices are central to our long-term strategy of injecting sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. With the Wolfram Language we now have a way to describe and compute about...
View ArticleStarting to Demo the Wolfram Language
We’re getting closer to the first official release of the Wolfram Language—so I am starting to demo it more publicly. Here’s a short video demo I just made. It’s amazing to me how much of this is based...
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Injecting Computation Everywhere–A SXSW Update
Two weeks ago I spoke at SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX. Here’s a slightly edited transcript (it’s the “speaker’s cut”, including some demos I had to abandon during the talk): Well, I’ve got a lot...
View ArticleA Speech for (High-School) Graduates
Last weekend I gave a speech at this year’s graduation event for the Stanford Online High School (OHS) that one of my children has been attending. Here’s the transcript: Thank you for inviting me to be...
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Wolfram Programming Cloud Is Live!
Twenty-six years ago today we launched Mathematica 1.0. And I am excited that today we have what I think is another historic moment: the launch of Wolfram Programming Cloud—the first in a sequence of...
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Launching Mathematica 10–with 700+ New Functions and a Crazy Amount of R&D
We’ve got an incredible amount of new technology coming out this summer. Two weeks ago we launched Wolfram Programming Cloud. Today I’m pleased to announce the release of a major new version of...
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Entrepreneurism of Ideas: An Education Adventure
For as long as I can remember, my all-time favorite activity has been creating ideas and turning them into reality—a kind of “entrepreneurism of ideas”. And over the years—in science, technology and...
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Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics
Every four years for more than a century there’s been an International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) held somewhere in the world. In 1900 it was where David Hilbert announced his famous collection...
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Launching Today: Mathematica Online!
It’s been many years in the making, and today I’m excited to announce the launch of Mathematica Online: a version of Mathematica that operates completely in the cloud—and is accessible just through any...
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Introducing Tweet-a-Program
In the Wolfram Language a little code can go a long way. And to use that fact to let everyone have some fun, today we’re introducing Tweet-a-Program. Compose a tweet-length Wolfram Language program,...
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The Wolfram Data Drop Is Live!
Where should data from the Internet of Things go? We’ve got great technology in the Wolfram Language for interpreting, visualizing, analyzing, querying and otherwise doing interesting things with it....
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Pi or Pie?! Celebrating Pi Day of the Century (And How to Get Your Very Own...
Pictures from Pi Day now added » This coming Saturday is “Pi Day of the Century”. The date 3/14/15 in month/day/year format is like the first digits of π=3.1415… And at 9:26:53.589… it’s a “super pi...
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Frontiers of Computational Thinking: A SXSW Report
Last week I spoke at SXSW Interactive 2015 in Austin, Texas. Here’s a slightly edited transcript: A Most Productive Year Well, hello again. I’ve actually talked about computation three times before at...
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Scientific Bug Hunting in the Cloud: An Unexpected CEO Adventure
The Wolfram Cloud Needs to Be Perfect The Wolfram Cloud is coming out of beta soon (yay!), and right now I’m spending much of my time working to make it as good as possible (and, by the way, it’s...
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Instant Apps for the Apple Watch with the Wolfram Language
My goal with the Wolfram Language is to take programming to a new level. And over the past year we’ve been rolling out ways to use and deploy the language in many places—desktop, cloud, mobile,...
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