Wolfram Research

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfram Research, Inc.

Type Scientific & Technical Computing Software

Founded 1987

Founder(s) Wolfram CEO Stephen Wolfram; co-founder, Theodore Gray is the company's Director of User Interface Technology.^[1]

Headquarters Champaign, Illinois (worldwide headquarters); Oxfordshire, UK (European headquarters); Tokyo, Japan (Asian headquarters); with additional locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; & Paris, France.

Key people President, Stephen Wolfram

Industry Computer software, Publishing, Research and Development

Products Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica

Owner Privately held

Employees 300+

Divisions Wolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Japan.

Website www.wolfram.com

Wolfram Research is an international company that summarizes its aim as "Pushing the Envelope of Technical Computing". The main product of Wolfram Research is Mathematica, an environment for technical computing. The founder and CEO of Wolfram Research is Stephen Wolfram, scientist and author, who maintains close involvement with the development of Mathematica.

1 Software 2 Publishing 3 Public services 4 Consulting 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Software

The primary software product of Wolfram Research is the program Mathematica, which has, as of November 2008, undergone an upgrade to version 7. Other products include Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, and webMathematica.

[edit] Publishing

Wolfram Research publishes the Mathematica journal and has published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm^[2].

[edit] Public services

In addition to its commercial products, Wolfram Research publishes several, free of charge, public services including the MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedia sites.

[edit] Consulting

Wolfram Research serves as the mathematical consultant for the CBS television series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical applications of crime-solving.