{"id":727,"date":"2010-12-17T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=727"},"modified":"2017-06-19T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T18:09:40","slug":"mathematica-8-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2010\/12\/17\/mathematica-8-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematica 8 Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, Wolfram Research released Mathematica 8. \u00a0Swarthmore ITS has the new edition available for download for faculty, staff, and students here:
Download Mathematica 8<\/a> (Swarthmore username and password required). \u00a0We have versions for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.<\/p>\n

From Wolfram’s website<\/a>, here are the top 8 reasons to upgrade:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Enter your queries in plain English using new free-form linguistic input<\/li>\n
  2. Access more than 10 trillion sets of curated, up-to-date, and ready-to-use data<\/li>\n
  3. Import all your data using a wider array of import\/export formats<\/li>\n
  4. Use the broadest statistics and data visualization capabilities on the market<\/li>\n
  5. Choose from a full suite of engineering tools, such as wavelets and control systems<\/li>\n
  6. Use more powerful image processing and analysis capabilities<\/li>\n
  7. Create interactive tools for rapid exploration of your ideas<\/li>\n
  8. Develop faster and more powerful applications<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Mathematica 8’s free-form input is a new way to interact with Mathematica. \u00a0For example, typing<\/p>\n

    = sum integers from 1 to 100<\/pre>\n
    returns<\/p>\n
    5050<\/pre>\n
    and typing<\/p>\n
    = factor -2 a+2 x+a x-x^2+a x^2-x^3<\/pre>\n
    returns<\/p>\n
    (a -x) (-1 + x) (2 + x)<\/pre>\n
    For the folks interested in higher performance, Mathematica is GPU enabled using CUDA or OpenCL. \u00a0It is also possible to compile your programs to C code.<\/p>\n
    For the social sciences, Mathematica has better statistical and financial charting along with the ability to access public data sets. \u00a0For example, you can get weather or census information from a single line Mathematica code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Last month, Wolfram Research released Mathematica 8. \u00a0Swarthmore ITS has the new edition available for download for faculty, staff, and students here:Download Mathematica 8 (Swarthmore username and password required). \u00a0We have versions for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. From Wolfram’s website, here are the top 8 reasons to upgrade: Enter your queries in plain English using new free-form linguistic input Access more than 10 trillion sets of curated, up-to-date, and ready-to-use data Import all your data using a wider array of import\/export formats Use the broadest statistics and data visualization capabilities on the market Choose from a full suite of engineering … Continue reading Mathematica 8 Now Available<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,113,97,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","category-facultystaff","category-software","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-bJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}