Named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2009, Wolfram|Alpha is already changing how students and educators approach a wide variety of subjects.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ — A team of experts led by noted scientist and Wolfram|Alpha creator Stephen Wolfram will help students tackle some of their toughest assignments on Wolfram|Alpha’s first Homework Day. (homeworkday.wolframalpha.com)
This groundbreaking 14-hour live interactive web event will begin at noon (CDT) on Wednesday October 21, 2009, and run until 2am (CDT) on Thursday. Free and web-based, Wolfram|Alpha is an innovative computational knowledge engine that is an invaluable tool for students, whether they are seeking help in a required course or looking to excel in their chosen field.
The live Homework Day webcast will bring together people from across the country to tackle tough homework assignments and explore the richness that Wolfram|Alpha brings to learning. The Homework Day website will be used to broadcast the live October 21 event and feature live chat, where participants are encouraged to submit questions that Stephen Wolfram and his team will analyze and solve throughout the webcast.
Questions can be submitted before or during the event on the Homework Day website or via Twitter and Facebook. The webcast will also feature interviews with distinguished scientists Brian Greene (author of “The Elegant Universe” and “The Fabric of the Cosmos”) and Lawrence M. Krauss (author of “Fear of Physics” and “The Physics of Star Trek”).
Launched this May, Wolfram|Alpha (www.wolframalpha.com) is a free website powered by a computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2009, Wolfram|Alpha is widely recognized as an invaluable new resource for education.
The Homework Day webcast will also feature:
- Quick, step-by-step lessons that will give everyone the ability to use Wolfram|Alpha to tackle problems in a variety of subjects, including math, science, engineering, health and nutrition, English, history, economics, and many more
- Ideas and examples for how to make subjects like math and science more engaging and relevant to students
- Live interviews and demonstrations by educators who are already using Wolfram|Alpha in their classrooms
The goal of Homework Day is to broadly share how students and educators are using Wolfram|Alpha in college and to demonstrate the advantages of using this free site not only to tackle specific problems, but to inspire students to probe subject matter further and promote deeper understanding of fundamental concepts.
About Wolfram Alpha LLC
Wolfram Alpha LLC is a Wolfram Research company. Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. The company aims to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Wolfram|Alpha builds on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
About Wolfram Research
Wolfram Research, Inc. is a powerhouse in technical innovation and pursues a long-term vision to develop the science, technology, and tools to make computation an ever-more-potent force in today’s and tomorrow’s world. With Mathematica 7, Wolfram Research delivered powerful new capabilities, including image processing, parallel high-performance computing, and new on-demand data, making the software more relevant than ever to everyone from leading researchers to students and other users.
Wolfram Research sponsors the world’s largest free network of technical information websites, including MathWorld – the #1 website devoted to mathematics – and the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Wolfram Research was founded in 1987 by Stephen Wolfram, who continues to lead the company today. The company is headquartered in the United States, with offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit its website.
About Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram is a distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader. He is the creator of Mathematica, the author of A New Kind of Science, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Wolfram has been president and CEO of Wolfram Research since its founding in 1987. In addition to his business leadership, Wolfram is deeply involved in the development of the company’s technology, and continues to be personally responsible for overseeing all aspects of the functional design of the core Mathematica system as well as Wolfram|Alpha.
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