Wolfram Research Knowledge App Site Gets a Makeover

By DE Editors

Wolfram Research has announced a makeover of the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, which was created as a new paradigm for exploring ideas by empowering readers to manipulate content and generate results live.

The site has grown to attract 400,000 visitors each month, according to the company. Users can access more than 6,800 knowledge apps across science, mathematics, engineering, technology, business,  art, finance, social sciences, and many more areas through the site. New features now enable users to interact with the dynamic content directly within their web browsers for more immediate discovery and experience of topics.

“The Demonstrations Project has proved so successful because users drive their own discovery and computation of live content ... and that’s lots of content, because it’s content that’s easy to create,” says Conrad Wolfram, director of Strategic Development at Wolfram Research. “Smoothing out the user experience — including live interactions directly in your browser — has been a key aim of the new site ... and one that makes exploring Demonstrations a more natural, a more everyday activity.”

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is fueled by the user community of Wolfram’s core software, Mathematica.  The new interactive features can be accessed by anyone via the free Wolfram player provided. Knowledge apps created with the latest Mathematica 8 natively support the new plugin-enabled interactive format, and those created with previous versions can be converted using Mathematica 8.

For more information, visit the Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.