Wolfram Blog

1. Celebrating Computational Excellence with the 2020 Wolfram Innovator Awards

   Our annual Wolfram Technology Conference took place October 6–9, and along with it the 10th annual Wolfram Innovator Award Ceremony. This year, Stephen Wolfram recognized 13 outstanding individuals from around the globe for their significant work using the Wolfram Language across fields and disciplines. We’d like to congratulate these winners for exceptional contributions using computational [...]

2. The Winners of the 2020 One-Liner Competition

   Although this year’s Wolfram Technology Conference was virtual, that didn’t stop us from running the ninth annual One-Liner Competition, where attendees vie to produce the most amazing results they can with 128 or fewer characters of Wolfram Language code. Here are the winners, including an audio game, a hands-free 3D viewer and code that makes [...]

3. Investigating the Ethereum Gold-Bug and Blockchain in the Wolfram Language

   Blockchain was integrated into the Wolfram Language in 2018 with the release of Version 11.3, featuring a set of functions that is constantly improved and expanded upon by our team. Currently supporting a seamless connection to the Bitcoin, Ethereum, ARK and bloxberg mainnets, testnets and devnets, Wolfram introduced to the distributed ledger technology (DLT) space [...]

4. Accessing Monarch Biodiversity Data with New Wolfram Language Functions

   var myVideo=document.getElementById("butterflyVideo"); myVideo.playbackRate = 0.2; Earth has experienced five major extinctions since life first appeared almost four billion years ago. The sixth is happening right now; the current extinction rate is between one hundred and one thousand times greater than what it was before 1800. Despite the alarming extinction rate, it’s easier than ever to [...]

5. Learning and Educating with Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica: Authors Reveal New Edition

   September 24 marked the release of the third edition of one of our most successful and widespread teaching tools: Cliff Hastings, Kelvin Mischo and Michael Morrison’s debut book, Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica and Programming with the Wolfram Language. As the publishing assistant at Wolfram Research, I’ve spent the past few weeks working with the [...]

6. Unlocking Next-Level Certification at the Wolfram Data Science Boot Camp

   Our second year of the Wolfram Data Science Boot Camp (and the first fully virtual edition) wrapped at the end of July. After completing final project assessments last week and issuing certificates, we can confidently say it was a success! Wolfram U mentors helped dozens of budding data scientists learn the multiparadigm approach and develop [...]

7. Developing a New Data Analysis and Visualization Course: Tackling an Infodemic with Computation

   A few months before I accepted a Wolfram Research internship—around March—I was very fearful, and so was the majority of the world. We knew very little about the novel coronavirus, and the data was just not robust. In addition to the limited data we had, the scientific process necessarily takes time, so even that was [...]

8. Navigating the New World: Adjustments with Wolfram and Technology to Help You

   In March, my work life changed dramatically, as it did for many around the world. After working in an office environment for almost 25 years, I was told that I needed to work from home for the first time. So I took my laptop, power cord and extra battery home with the expectation that I’d [...]

9. Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition Turns One: Now with Support for Chemistry, Demonstrations and More

   Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition was released nearly a year ago, and we’re proud to share what the team has been working on since. In addition to the improvements made to Wolfram|Alpha itself, new input and output suggestions were added. There were parsing fixes, additions to the Wolfram|Alpha-to-Wolfram Language translation and some of the normal improvements one [...]

10. Wolfram Community Takes on Current Events: COVID-19 Data, Green Spaces, Homeschool Puzzles and More

    This roundup of Wolfram Community contributions features several different functions and tools related to current times, from the global pandemic to sustainable spaces and homeschool puzzles. Read on to see just a few creative examples from some of our favorite Community members and Wolfram Language wizzes. Epidemiological Models for Influenza and COVID-19 Robert Nachbar Robert [...]