The Wolfram Demonstrations Project Features Over 1,000 Dynamic Open-Code
Applications Based on Mathematica 6
May 9, 2007--Released just last week,
Mathematica 6 is
already opening the doors to a dramatic advance in the concept of
interactive computing. Using revolutionary new technologies at the core of
Mathematica 6, Wolfram Research has now launched The Wolfram Demonstrations
Project--an innovative website conceived by Mathematica creator Stephen
Wolfram to bring computational exploration to the widest possible audience.
The Demonstrations Project is a daily-growing collection of open-code
"mini-applications"--all created in Mathematica 6 and contributed by users
from around the world. At its launch, The Demonstrations Project featured
well over 1,000 Demonstrations, making it larger than any similar collection of
educational Java or Flash applets available on the web--and much more
Topics span an ever-growing array of categories, from elementary education
to front-line research. Some Demonstrations can be used to enliven
a classroom or visualize tough concepts, while others shed new light on
cutting-edge ideas relevant to high-level workgroups and thesis research.
Where before researchers and educators might have performed a calculation or
generated an animation to understand results, it is now just as easy to
create and share mini-applications to explore multidimensional parameter
spaces on the fly.
"What was once in the domain of computing experts alone, is now in the hands
of every Mathematica user," said Joe Bolte, manager of The Wolfram
Demonstrations Project. "We've introduced a radically new medium for
publishing and development that gives researchers, educators, and
professionals a rich forum to interactively communicate their technical
All Demonstrations can be previewed on the web and downloaded to run in
Mathematica 6 or Mathematica Player, the free runtime environment for
Mathematica notebook (.nb/.nbp) files. Those with Mathematica can also
experiment with and modify the code on their own computers.
For more information, explore The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.