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Wolfram Research, Inc.
100 Trade Center Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820-7237
IL Tel. 217-398-0700
Toll Free 800-965-3726
Fax 217-398-0747

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.wolfram.com
 Employees: 375

Wolfram Research believes that math doesn't have to be a scary proposition fraught with peril. The company develops mathematical software for engineers, financial analysts, researchers, and students. The company, part of the Wolfram Group, was founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987. Wolfram's Mathematica suite was first released in 1988 and has gone through five major releases. The company also offers webMathematica, for doing interactive calculations through a Web browser, and gridMathematica, for running the Mathematica software on computer clusters.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $22.1M

Officers:
President: Stephen Wolfram
Director Finance: Becky Porth
Director User Interface Technology: Theodore Gray

Competitors:
MathWorks
National Instruments
Parametric Technology

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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 and Paris, France.
Key people President, Stephen Wolfram International & Strategic Director, Conrad Wolfram
Industry Computer software, Publishing, Research and Development
Products Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica, Wolfram Alpha
Owner(s) 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 a private company that makes math programs. Its main product 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.

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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.

Websites

Wolfram Research publishes several free websites including the MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedias.

Wolfram Alpha is Wolfram's newest website, launched on May 16, 2009. It brings a new approach to knowledge generation and acquisition that involves large amounts of curated computable data in addition to semantic indexing of text.[2]

Publishing

Wolfram Research publishes the Mathematica journal and has published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm[3].

Consulting

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

See also

Search Wikinews Wikinews has related news: Wolfram Research’s new product Alpha to compete with Google and Wikipedia

References

  1. ^ Stock Market Returns by Presidential Party by Theodore Gray, Co-founder, Director of User Interfaces, WolframBlog, October 16, 2008]
  2. ^ Johnson, Bobbie (2009-03-09). "British search engine 'could rival Google'". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/09/search-engine-google. Retrieved 2009-03-09. 
  3. ^ Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science sets a new standard in more ways than one by Charlotte Abbott, Publishers Weekly, 6/24/2002

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