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STEM in Science Classrooms – Difference Between Science and Technology

STEM Education Guide

As the country rolled into the 21st century, STEM achievements in the US were behind those in other countries. Science in STEM It encompasses fields such as geology, chemistry, physics, biology, and astronomy. Famous biologist Judith Ramaley coined the acronym in 2001 when she was the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

And in Mathematica and the Wolfram Language that’s achieved with Integrate. And over the years that’s exactly what we’ve achieved—for integrals, sums, differential equations, etc. It’s the end of a long journey, and a satisfying achievement in the quest to make as much mathematical knowledge as possible automatically computable.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. But in other ways it’s also a cautionary tale, of how the forces of “conventional wisdom” can blind people to unanswered questions and—over a surprisingly long time—inhibit the development of new ideas.

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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

And for the past four years I’ve been sharing the “behind the scenes” of how it’s achieved—by livestreaming our Wolfram Language design review meetings. You can give Threaded as an argument to any listable function, not just Plus and Times : &#10005. And that’s finally been achieved in Version 13.1. In designing Version 13.1

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Launching Version 12.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

1”) releases that deliver our latest R&D achievements—both fully fleshed out, and partly as “coming attractions”—much more frequently. Particularly notable is significantly faster rendering on Windows platforms, achieved by using DirectWrite and making use of GPU capabilities. We released Version 12.2 on December 16, 2020.