[Crib-list] Friday, March 3, 2006 -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar (CRiB)

[Shirley Entzminger]

 			COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH
 			  in BOSTON SEMINAR

DATE:		FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2006
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 144 (Stata Center)

(Pizza and beverages will be provided.)


Title:		HOW WE DEVELOP ALGORITHMS FOR MATHEMATICA


Speaker:	ROGER GERMUNDSSON (Wolfram Research)


ABSTRACT:

Over the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in the rate of 
algorithm production at Wolfram Research (much for as-yet-unreleased versions 
of Mathematica).  This talk will discuss the methods and strategy behind this. 
A core part is the Mathematica symbolic language which enables high-level 
interfaces, which can stay invariant across different versions of the system 
while still enabling lots of innovation of the underlying algorithms.  It also 
enables universal connectivity between functionality, perhaps from different 
domains or with very different structures.  This means what makes Mathematica 
productive for users -- high-level interfaces, universal connectivity and rich 
web of interconnected algorithms - also makes it a productive algorithm 
development environment for developers.  The talk will use examples from 
numeric, symbolic, graphic and parallel computation.

BIO:
Roger Germundsson has been Director of Research & Development at Wolfram 
Research since 1997.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA  02139


http://www-math.mit.edu/crib

For information on CRiB, contact:

Alan Edelman:  edelman at math.mit.edu
Steven G. Johnson:  stevenj at math.mit.edu
Jeremy Kepner:  kepner at ll.mit.edu