Owner Privately held Founded 1987 Type of business Private | Website wolfram.com CEO Stephen Wolfram (1987–) Number of employees ~700 | |
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Industry Computer software, Publishing, Research and Development Key people President & CEO, Stephen Wolfram
Director of Strategic Development & Wolfram Research Europe Limited CEO, Conrad Wolfram Products Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica, Wolfram Alpha, SystemModeler 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. Headquarters Champaign, Illinois, United States Founders Stephen Wolfram, Theodore Gray Subsidiaries Wolfram Alpha LLC, Wolfram Research Europe Ltd., MathCore Engineering AB Profiles | ||
Wolfram Research is a private company that creates computational technology. Wolfram's flagship product is the technical computing program Mathematica, first released on June 23, 1988. Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram is the CEO.
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The company launched Wolfram Alpha, an answer engine on 16 May 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.
Wolfram Research acquired MathCore Engineering AB on March 30, 2011.
On July 21, 2011 Wolfram Research launched the Computable Document Format (CDF). CDF is an electronic document format designed to allow easy authoring of dynamically generated interactive content.
In June 2014, Wolfram Research officially introduced the Wolfram Language as a new general multi-paradigm programming language. It is the primary programming language used in Mathematica.
Other products include Wolfram SystemModeler, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, Wolfram Finance Platform,webMathematica, the Wolfram Development Platform, and the Wolfram Programming Lab.
Wolfram Research served as the mathematical consultant for the CBS television series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical aspects of crime-solving.
Mathematica for beginners the basics
Publishing
Wolfram Research publishes several free websites including the MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedias.
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is a collaborative site hosting interactive technical demonstrations powered by a free Mathematica Player runtime.
Wolfram Research publishes The Mathematica Journal. Wolfram has also published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm.
Wolfram Research has organized three Wolfram Science conferences in Boston, MA, Washington, D.C. and Burlington, VT in the United States in the years 2003, 2006 and 2007 respectively. Two other independent NKS Midwest conferences have taken place at the Indiana University, Bloomington in 2005 and 2008. Other independent workshops related to NKS research have also been organized overseas, such as JOUAL (Just One Universal Algorithm) at the CNR in Pisa, Italy in 2009.
Wolfram Research hosts the yearly Wolfram Technology Conference in Champaign, IL. During this three-day conference, developers discuss the latest Wolfram technologies for mobile devices, cloud computing, interactive deployment, and more.
Wolfram Research also hosts the annual Wolfram Data Summit, a high-level gathering of innovators in data science.
They are experimenting with electronic textbook creation.