Wolfram Technology Seminar(Mathematica software and Wolfram|Alpha in Education and Research)

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Wolfram Technology Seminar(Mathematica software and Wolfram|Alpha in Education and Research)

By XJTLU MITS Office

Date and time

Thu, 26 May 2016 19:00 - 20:30 CST

Location

1E (1st Floor, Foundation Building) China

Description

MITS Series of Training and Workshop --- Wolfram Technology Seminar

(Mathematica software and Wolfram|Alpha in Education and Research)

This talk illustrates capabilities in Mathematica 10 and other Wolfram technologies that are directly applicable for use in teaching and research on campus. Topics of these technical talks include:

  • Enter calculations in everyday English, or using the flexible Wolfram Language
  • Visualize data, functions, surfaces, and more in 2D or 3D
  • Store and share documents locally or in the Wolfram Cloud
  • Use the Predictive Interface to get suggestions for the next useful calculation or function options
  • Access trillions of bits of on-demand data
  • Use semantic import to enrich your data using Wolfram curated data
  • Easily turn static examples into mouse-driven, dynamic applications
  • Access 10,000 free course-ready applications
  • Utilize the Wolfram Language's wide scope of built-in functions, or create your own
  • Get deep support for specialized areas including machine learning, time series, image processing, parallelization, and control systems, with no add-ons required

Current users will benefit from seeing the many improvements and new features of Mathematica 10 (http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/), but prior knowledge of Mathematica is not required.

Speaker: Dr. Meng Lu

Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm, Thursday, May 26, 2016

Venue: 1E (1st Floor, Foundation Building)

Language: English

About Speaker:

Dr. Meng Lu joined Wolfram Research in 2008 as a member of the research and development team for Wolfram|Alpha, the computational knowledge engine. His work has involved the design, implementation, and long-term maintenance of various software components of the Wolfram|Alpha system and its underlying knowledgebase in different disciplines and domains. His recent focus is leading an effort to localize the whole Wolfram|Alpha software system and knowledgebase into a number of different languages.

Before joining Wolfram, Dr. Lu earned his Ph.D. in physics at Ohio State University and studied theoretical high-energy physics and scientific computing. Prior to that, he graduated with a B.S. from Fudan University.

Introduction of Mathematica software and Wolfram|Alpha

Mathematica is a symbolic mathematical computation program, sometimes called a computer algebra program, used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical, and computing fields.

Mathematica is split into two parts, the kernel and the front end. The kernel interprets expressions (Wolfram Language code) and returns result expressions. The front end provides a GUI, which allows the creation and editing of Notebook documents containing program code with prettyprinting, formatted text together with results including typeset mathematics, graphics, GUI components, tables, and sounds. [1]

Wolfram Alpha (also styled WolframAlpha and Wolfram|Alpha) is a computational knowledge engine or answer engine developed by Wolfram Research, which was founded by Stephen Wolfram. It is an online service that answers 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. [2]

Please email us at IT-service@xjtlu.edu.cn if you have any question or suggestion about this Seminar.

We are looking forward to your participation.

Management Information Technology and System Office (MITS)

20th May, 2016

[1] Mathematica(2016) [Online]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica(Accessed: 16 May 2016).

[2] Wolfram Alpha(2016) [Online]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Alpha(Accessed: 16 May 2016).

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