computer software publishing research and development founded 1987 founder stephen wolfram headquarters champaign illinois worldwide headquarters oxfordshire uk tokyo japan with additional locations in somerville massachusetts and paris france . 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 owner privately held number of employees 700 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 . website wolfram.com coordinates 40 05 50 n 88 14 44 w 40.097128 n 88.245690 w 40.097128 ; 88.245690 wolfram research is a private company that creates computational technology . the founder and ceo of wolfram research is stephen wolfram an english scientist and author who is deeply involved in the development of the company s technology and personally oversees the functional design of the company s core products . 1 wolfram s flagship product is the technical computing program mathematica which was released on june 23 1988 . 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 . 2 wolfram research acquired mathcore engineering ab on march 30 2011 . 3 on july 21 2011 wolfram research launched the computable document format cdf . cdf is an electronic document format 4 designed to allow easy authoring 5 of dynamically generated interactive content . in june 2014 wolfram research officially introduced the wolfram language as a new general multi paradigm programming language . 6 it is the primary programming language used in mathematica . 7 other products include wolfram systemmodeler wolfram workbench 8 gridmathematica wolfram finance platform 9 webmathematica the wolfram development platform 10 and the wolfram programming lab . 11 wolfram research served as the mathematical consultant for the cbs television series numb3rs a show about the mathematical aspects of crime solving . 12 contents 1 publications 2 see also 3 references 4 external links publications edit 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 and has published several books via wolfram media wolfram s publishing arm . 13 14 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 been organized at the indiana university bloomington in 2005 and 2008 . other independent workshops related to nks research have been also 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 . 15 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 . 16 they are experimenting with electronic textbook creation . 17 see also edit wikinews has related news wolfram research s new product alpha to compete with google and wikipedia a new kind of science ed pegg jr. eric w. weisstein references edit about stephen wolfram . www.stephenwolfram.com . retrieved 2016 08 01 . johnson bobbie 2009 03 09 . british search engine could rival google . the guardian . london . retrieved 2009 03 09 . wolfram stephen . launching a new era in large scale systems modeling . wolfram alpha creator plans to delete the pdf the telegraph uk wolfram makes data interactive pc world wolfram language reference page . reference.wolfram.com . retrieved 2014 05 14 . slate s article stephen wolfram s new programming language he can make the world computable march 6 2014 . retrieved on 2014 05 14 . wolfram workbench state of the art integrated development environment . www.wolfram.com . retrieved 2016 08 01 . wolfram finance platform ultimate financial computation environment . www.wolfram.com . retrieved 2016 08 01 . wolfram development platform introducing a programming revolution . www.wolfram.com . retrieved 2016 08 01 . wolfram programming lab computational thinking starts here . www.wolfram.com . retrieved 2016 08 01 . numb3rs 307 blackout . cornell university . retrieved 13 march 2012 . stephen wolfram s a new kind of science sets a new standard in more ways than one by charlotte abbott publishers weekly 6 24 2002 wolfram media titles . www.wolfram media.com . retrieved 2016 08 01 . wolfram technology conference 2016 . wolfram data summit 2016 trends & innovations in the universe of data . www.wolframdatasummit.org . retrieved 2016 08 01 . eisenberg anne 17 december 2011 . online textbooks aim to make science leap from the page . the new york times . external links edit official website official blog official wolfram research twitter account hoovers fact sheet on wolfram research inc. michael trott the science and art of mathematica by tim mcintyre science apple.com 2007 . the mathematics behind numb3rs wolfram s site on numb3rs mathematics . supercomputer pictures solve the once insoluble john markoff the new york times october 30 1988 meet an inventor whose product makes complex calculus simple by gautam naik the wall street journal september 25 1996 stephen wolfram s simple science by michael arndt business week may 17 2002 . wolfram releases revolutionary mathematica 6 mathematica 6 developer promises a revolution in computing by jonny evans macworld may 2 2007 . v t e wolfram research products computable document format mathematica gridmathematica mathworld wolfram alpha wolfram demonstrations project wolfram language wolfram systemmodeler people stephen wolfram conrad wolfram theodore gray retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wolfram research & oldid 743253504 categories wolfram researchmathematical softwaresoftware companiessoftware companies based in illinoischampaign illinoissoftware companies established in 1987cloud computing providershidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscoordinates not on wikidataarticles using template official blog navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to 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