[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