Wolfram Research
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| Private | |
| Industry | Computer software, Publishing, Research and Development |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Stephen Wolfram, Theodore Gray |
| Headquarters | Champaign, Illinois (worldwide headquarters) Oxfordshire, UK Tokyo, Japan with additional locations in Somerville, Massachusetts and Paris, France. |
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Key people
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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 |
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Number of employees
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~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 |
President & CEO, Stephen Wolfram
Coordinates: 40°05′50″N 88°14′44″W / 40.097128°N 88.245690°W
Wolfram Research is a private company that creates computational technology. Wolfram's flagship product is the technical computing program Mathematica, first released on June 23, 1988. Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram is the CEO.
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.
Wolfram Research acquired MathCore Engineering AB on March 30, 2011.
On July 21, 2011 Wolfram Research launched the Computable Document Format (CDF). CDF is an electronic document format designed to allow easy authoring of dynamically generated interactive content.
In June 2014, Wolfram Research officially introduced the Wolfram Language as a new general multi-paradigm programming language. It is the primary programming language used in Mathematica.
Other products include Wolfram SystemModeler, Wolfram Workbench,gridMathematica, Wolfram Finance Platform,webMathematica, the Wolfram Development Platform, and the Wolfram Programming Lab.
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