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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer software,publishing,research and development |
| Founded | 1987; 38 years ago (1987) |
| Founder | Stephen Wolfram,Theodore Gray |
| Headquarters | , United States |
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| Products | Wolfram Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica,Wolfram Alpha,SystemModeler, Wolfram Programming Lab, Wolfram One, Wolfram Engine for Developers, Function Repository, Neural Network Repository, Data Repository |
Number of employees | ~400[1] |
| Divisions | Wolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in the United Kingdom, Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Japan and Wolfram Research South America in Peru. |
| Website | wolfram.com |
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Wolfram Research, Inc. (/ˈwʊlfrəm/WUUL-frəm) is an Americanmultinational company that creates computational technology. Wolfram's flagship product is thetechnical computing programWolfram Mathematica, first released on June 23, 1988. Other products includeWolframAlpha,Wolfram System Modeler, Wolfram Workbench,[2]gridMathematica, Wolfram Finance Platform,[3]webMathematica, the Wolfram Cloud, and the Wolfram Programming Lab.[4] Wolfram Research founderStephen Wolfram is theCEO. The company is headquartered inChampaign, Illinois, United States.
The company launchedWolfram Alpha, ananswer engine on May 16, 2009. It brings a new approach to knowledge generation and acquisition that involves large amounts ofcurated computable data in addition to semantic indexing of text.[5]
Wolfram Research acquired MathCore Engineering AB on March 30, 2011.[6][7]
On July 21, 2011, Wolfram Research launched theComputable Document Format (CDF). CDF is an electronic document format[8] designed to allow easy authoring[9] of dynamically generated interactive content.
In June 2014, Wolfram Research officially introduced theWolfram Language as a new general multi-paradigm programming language.[10] It is the primary programming language used inMathematica.[11]
On April 15, 2020, Wolfram Research received $5,575,000 to help pay its employees during theCOVID-19 pandemic as part of theU.S. government'sPaycheck Protection Program administered by theSmall Business Administration. The loan was forgiven.[12][13]
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Mathematica began as a software program for doing mathematics by computer, and has evolved to cover all domains oftechnical computing software, with features forneural networks,machine learning,image processing,geometry,data science, andvisualizations. Central to Mathematica's mission is its ability to perform symbolic computation, for example, the ability to solve indefinite integrals symbolically. Mathematica includes anotebook interface and can produce slides for presentations. Mathematica is available in a desktop version, a grid computing version, and a cloud version.
Wolfram Alpha is a free online service thatanswers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced curated data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might. Users submit queries and computation requests via a text field and Wolfram Alpha then computes answers and relevant visualizations.
On February 8, 2012, Wolfram Alpha Pro was released, offering users additional features(e.g., the ability to upload many common file types and data — including raw tabular data, images, audio, XML, and dozens of specialized scientific, medical, and mathematical formats — for automatic analysis) for a monthly subscription fee.[citation needed]
In 2016, Wolfram Alpha Enterprise, a business-focused analytics tool, was launched. The program combines data supplied by a corporation with the algorithms from Wolfram Alpha to answer questions related to that corporation.[14]
Wolfram System Modeler is a platform for engineering as well as life-science modeling and simulation based on theModelica language. It provides an interactive graphical modeling and simulation environment and a customizable set of component libraries. The primary interface,ModelCenter, is an interactive graphical environment including a customizable set of component libraries. The software also provides a tight integration with Mathematica. Users can develop, simulate, document, and analyze their models within Mathematica notebooks.
Wolfram Research publishes several free websites including theMathWorld andScienceWorld encyclopedias. ScienceWorld, which launched in 2002, is divided into sites on chemistry, physics, astronomy and scientific biography.[15] In 2005, the physics site was deemed a "valuable resource" byAmerican Scientist magazine.[16] However, by 2009, the astronomy site was said to suffer from outdated information, incomplete articles andlink rot.[17]
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is a collaborative site hosting interactive technical demonstrations powered by a free Mathematica Player runtime.
Wolfram Research publishesThe Mathematica Journal.[18] Wolfram has also published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm.[19][20] In addition, they have experimented with electronic textbook creation.[21]
Wolfram Research served as the mathematical consultant for theCBS television seriesNumb3rs, a show about the mathematical aspects of crime-solving.[22]
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