Conrad Wolfram ( Eng. Conrad Wolfram , June 10, 1970 ) is a British technologist and entrepreneur known for his work in the field of information technology and its applications.
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| Date of Birth | June 10, 1970 (49 years old) |
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| Occupation | Director of Strategic and International Development, Wolfram Research |
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Career
Conrad Wolfram founded Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. [1] in 1991, where he holds the position of managing director to this day [2] . In 1996, he also became director [3] of Wolfram Research , Inc. strategic and international development, which made him responsible for Wolfram Research Asia Ltd., and for public relations, including the website wolfram.com.
Wolfram Research was founded by his brother [4] Stephen Wolfram , the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha [5] .
Conrad Wolfram led the work on changing how the Mathematica system is used, from a purely computer system to a tool for development and deployment, [6] [7] facilitating the development of technologies such as the Mathematica Player family and web Mathematica, and promoting great automation within the system [ 8] . He also led a company focusing on interactive publishing technology, the declared purpose of which was to “make creating new applications as common as creating new documents” [9] arguing that “if a picture is worth a thousand words, then interactive a document is worth a thousand pictures ” [10] . These technologies came together in the form of CDF (Computed Document Format) [11] .
Konrad Wolfram also served on the IMS Conference Founding Committee.
Math Education Reform
Conrad Wolfram is a prominent supporter of the reform of mathematical education, which will increase the use of information technology [12] [13] [14] , and is also the founder of the portal computerbasedmath.org . Channel 4 News, a British television station, quoted his statement: “In some cases, it is important to do the calculations manually, but such cases are only a small part. In other cases, it should be understood that students should use a computer, as is the case everywhere in the real world ” [15] . In an interview with The Guardian, he described manual computing for using computers as “democratizing special skills.” [16]
In 2009, he made a presentation on educational reform at the TEDx conference in the EU Parliament [17] [18] , as well as at the TED Global 2010 conference, where he argued that “mathematics should be more practical and conceptual, and less mechanical” [19 ] , and that "calculations are the principle of mathematics - a way to achieve the goal."
He is a member of the Informatics Committee of the Advisory Board at Kings College London . [20]
Biography
Born in Oxford , England in 1970. Conrad Wolfram studied at Dragon School, Eton College , Pembroke College, Cambridge University in the UK [21] , where he received a master's degree in science and mathematics.
Notes
- ↑ Wolfram Alpha goes live , Channel 4 news.
- ↑ 09:39 am. BBC Radio 5, UK . BBC (September 15, 2009). Date of treatment November 16, 2010. Archived on September 21, 2012.
- ↑ A computational knowledge engine for factual queries , The Hindu , India, May 25, 2009.
- ↑ Can Wolfram Take on Google? , The Daily Telegraph , UK.
- ↑ Wolfram promises new way to probe the web , The Independent , UK.
- ↑ Wolfram Releases Mathematica Player 7 , Inside HPC , 10 December 2008.
- ↑ Wolfram Releases Mathematic Player Pro 7 , Dr Dobbs Journal .
- ↑ webMathematica Japanese Edition: Unique Product Brings Computation to the Web , Mathematica Journal , volume 8, issue 4.
- ↑ The day that documentes and applications merged , Wolfram Research.
- ↑ Interactive deployment , Wolfram Research.
- ↑ Wolfram Alpha Createor plans to delete the PDF The Telegraph (UK)
- ↑ We need to base maths lessons on computers , The Daily Telegraph , December 3, 2009.
- ↑ Changing the world with technical computing , Scientific Computing World , August 2004.
- ↑ Report of the invitation MEI seminars
- ↑ Introducing the 'sat-nav' maths exam Channel 4 News, UK
- ↑ WolframAlpha Online Search Engine Calculations The Guardian
- ↑ I calculate therefore I am. Conrad Wolfram, TedX Brussels 2009
- ↑ Speakers at TEDxBurssels 2009 unopened (unreachable link) . Tedxbrussels.eu. Date of treatment November 16, 2010. Archived November 24, 2009.
- ↑ Conrad Wolfram wants to reboot the maths curriculum Archived July 21, 2010. , Wired Magazine July 19, 2010.
- ↑ Advisory board , Kings College, London , UK.
- ↑ Wolfram giving away software in push into China , The News Gazette , March 9, 2008.