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Hello and welcome to Wolfram Community! This is the official networking portal for the users of Wolfram technologies, a virtual home to our global family. Here you can connect, interact, share ideas, and ask questions. Start from the following:

This is our “introduce yourself” thread where you can say a few things about yourself by simply replying to this post. As soon as you do, the thread will bubble up to the top of our front page and everyone will know that you have joined and have a chance to read about you. To give you an example, I will introduce myself.

I am a member of the Technical Communication and Strategy group at Wolfram Research. I get to play with almost every tidbit of the technologies we develop, build exemplary usage cases, and showcase them to the world through our sites and events. I publish at the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, write for the Wolfram Blog, and am a faculty member at the Wolfram Science Summer School. Among these and other things, I oversee management and moderation of Wolfram Community.

Now it is your turn!

Please note this thread is long (so many new members!) and the reply box is at the bottom. Now, please, tell us who you are!

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I am in the Wolfram Technology Group, which includes Technical Support. I am helping to moderate the Wolfram Community.
I’ve been moderator of the Student Support Forum since mid-2010, and substitute moderator occasionally before that.
Mathematica user since version 2.2.

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I have a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business, where I majored in Business Administration--Marketing. In April 1995 I started working for Wolfram Research as an Academic Account Executive in the Sales Department. Today I am the Senior Academic Program Manager, and focus my efforts on creating programs and resources to help students, educators, and schools incorporate Wolfram Technology into the classroom. I use Mathematica daily at work for data analysis, visualization, and presentations, and am a regular user of the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. I was involved in creating and moderating the Wolfram Faculty Program Forum, and have joined the team of moderators for the Wolfram Community.

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Hello! My name is Amy and I am a Public Relations Project Administrator in the (what else?) Public Relations department of Wolfram Research. I have an undergraduate degree in human geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a Master of Social Work with an emphasis on community organizing and administration from UIUC. I will be monitoring Wolfram Community, but otherwise coordinate our wonderful Wolfram|Alpha blog posts and other PR initiatives.

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I am in International Business Development team and work with customers and partners in South Africa, South East Asian countries and Pakistan. I have an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering with a Masters in Business Administration. I am working with Wolfram Research Inc since Oct 2011. Before joining them, I have vast experiences working in Oil & Gas Industry in Africa region.

I am a Wolfram Certified Instructor and travel frequently to conduct training, seminars and technical talks on Mathematica and Wolfram SytemModeler at universities, community colleges and high schools in my region.

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Hello! I am Tom Pauly, a Public Relations Specialist. I studied Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to coming to Wolfram I was the Director of Media Relations and Broadcasting for a minor league hockey team.

My role as a PR Specialist is quite dynamic - I aid with product rollouts, social media, analytics, blogging and many other things. I’ll be keeping an eye on Community and look forward to seeing it grow!

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I’m a Marketing and Public Relations Specialist for Wolfram Research in Champaign. Most of my work deals with press relations and outreach strategies, but I also enjoy helping out with social media and blogging. In my spare time, I assist space and science non-profit organizations with outreach and communications.

I’m a North Carolina native and graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, and I’m in the final stages of receiving my M.A. in linguistics from The Ohio State University. (My graduate research looked at linguistic features of Internet-based communication, particularly how we produce and perceive language variation on social media.) I’ve joined Wolfram Research fairly recently, but I’m a long-time fan and user of Wolfram technologies, especially Wolfram|Alpha.

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I am a theoretical physicist with specialization in relativity, gravitation, and quantum field theory. My main work has been in curved space renormalization methods and black holes. The very long and tedious tensor calculations in this work lead me to symbolic computation via computer and thus to Mathematica. I was one of the very first users of what became Mathematica in the mid-1980’s and using it, I co-wrote the tensor analysis system MathTensor, which has been sold as a commercial product for 25 years.

In the process of doing this work, I started the Mathematica mailing list which evolved into the comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica newsgroup that I moderate. More than 131,000 posts have occurred in that group over the years. I am now a co-moderator of this Community effort.

My other work consists of the creation of packages for the Sun/Oracle operating system Solaris. This can be found in the http://sunfreeware.com and http://unixpackages.com web sites. I build and distribute thousands of such packages to many places in the government, military, academic, and business worlds in more than 200 countries and territories.

My consulting company provides assistance to organizations needing help in physics, mathematics, and computing projects and software.

I am also a very avid amateur astronomer.

Details of my education, work, and publications can be found on the pages at: [url=I am a theoretical physicist with specialization in relativity, gravitation, and quantum field theory. My main work has been in curved space renormalization methods and black holes. The very long and tedious tensor calculations in this work lead me to symbolic computation via computer and thus to Mathematica. I was one of the very first users of what became Mathematica in the mid-1980’s and using it, I co-wrote the tensor analysis system MathTensor, which has been sold as a commercial product for 25 years. In the process of doing this work, I started the Mathematica mailing list which evolved into the comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica newsgroup that I moderate. More than 131,000 posts have occurred in that group over the years. I am now a co-moderator of this Community effort. My other work consists of the creation of packages for the Sun/Oracle operating system Solaris. This can be found in the http://sunfreeware.com andhttp://unixpackages.com web sites. I build and distribute thousands of such packages to many places in the government, military, academic, and business worlds in more than 200 countries and territories. My consulting company provides assistance to organizations needing help in physics, mathematics, and computing projects and software. I am also a very avid amateur astronomer. Details of my education, work, and publications can be found on the pages at http://smc.vnet.net/steve.html]http://smc.vnet.net/steve.html\[/url]

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Hello!

I am the events manager for Wolfram Research. Most of my time is spent facilitating discussions that can lead to great advances in a multitude of areas…these discussions occur at Trade Shows, Conferences, Meetings, Virtual Conferences, Picnics, Parties, and any other time/place combination I can think of!

Right now my main focus is split between the Wolfram Data Summit and the Wolfram Technology Conference, our two main conferences both held annually in the fall. With topics as varied as big data, programming, education, finance, engineering, optics, data science, physics and more - our conferences attract a wide range of professionals and students that all have one thing in common: advancing their abilities with the help of Wolfram technologies.

For more information, please see:
Wolfram Technology Conference
Wolfram Data Summit
Trade Shows, Training, etc.

I look forward to meeting many of you at a conference or trade show in the near future!

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Hello.

I have been associated to Wolfram since 2006. I have been involved in various projects in the company including some related to languages and computational linguistics, and basic and applied research. I am based in the UK but I often travel to Sweden and the U.S.

I have a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Lille, France, and I am particularly interested in the theory of cellular automata, complex networks, algorithmic randomness, and information theory. And more recently in computational systems biology with particular emphasis to network biology (network reverse engeneering and reconstruction) for hypothesis testing.

As a highlight of my research work, I can mention the conception of a Block Decomposition Method that I conceived together with colleagues, as an extension of the power of an alternative way to measure the Kolmogorov complexity of objects such as strings, images and networks, based on the algorithmic Coding theorem that relates the algorithmic complexity of a string to its frequency of production as a result of running a random computer program.

Feel free to visit my webpage and contact me if you have any interesting projects or have any questions:
http://hectorzenil.com/
where most of my papers are freely available.

I look forward to meeting people in this great community.

  • Hector Zenil
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Hello! I’m Peteris Krumins, co founder of Browserling and chief hacker at catonmat. Super excited to be joining this forum. Been using Mathematica for over 10 years.

[1]: http://www.browserling.com
[2]: http://www.catonmat.net

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Hi All,
I’m a high school Mathematics teacher and eLearning specialist, and I use Mathematica to teach my pupils about programming and problem solving. I’d love to hear from anyone else with experience in this area, to share resources or just to cheat.
Thanks,
Nick James

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Hi. I’m a PhD student at Stanford, and I am also disappointed that (1) this new community site doesn’t allow emails with “+” symbols and (2) Wolfram won’t allow you to change the email address linked to your account. As a result, I had to make a new Wolfram account to join.

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Hello, I am Julio de la Yncera and I use mathematica for creating mathematical animations.
an example can be seen at

[http://www.isallaboutmath.com/pi.aspx

I](http://www.isallaboutmath.com/pi.aspx) am also planning to use it for animations and diagrams in a book.

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Hi, I’m Rob Lockhart. I worked at Wolfram|Alpha right around the time of launch, and I still love the Mathematica language.

I’m currently the founder of an independant game studio specializing in educational games. It’s called Important Little Games. If you need help designing and building an educational game, I’m your guy.

-Rob

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Salutations! My name is Joshua Towns, and I am the Chief Information Officer at the Indiana Department of Education.

I am looking for innovative ways to incorporate Mathematica technologies in the display, manipulation and analysis of student information, in order to better inform teachers, parents, administrators and policy makers.

I am making the sometimes painful but consistently exciting experience of transitioning from procedural programming to functional programming--and I can think of no better technology to take this journey with! I very much look forward to interacting with you all!

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Hi everybody,
I’m Ruben Garcia Berasategui and I teach math to last-year high-school students and first-year college students in Jakarta International College in Jakarta, Indonesia.
I’ve using Mathematica since 1997 when, while in Berkeley,CA, I fell in love with functional programming after discovering the beauty of statements like this:

Apply[Times,Range[10]]

I’m trying to spread my enthusiasm about Wolfram technologies and functional programming to my students and also to other schools and universities in Indonesia.
I’m currently also the only Wolfram Certified Trainer in ASEAN although I hope that as a result of my activities others will join me soon!

I’m looking forward to sharing experiences about incorporating Mathematica and WolframAlpha in the classroom with other community members.

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Hi!
I’m Blanca Parra, from Mexico.
40 years ago I decided that Math Education was my call. I’ve been a researcher in this field but, most importantly, a math teacher in every level from Junior High to Post grad education, including training teachers. I retired last year but I continue to teach Calculus and Statistics at college level.
My first Mathematica licence was 3.0.1 or something like that. I still have the very big volume accompanying the software.

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Hello
I am Rob. I am a Mathematica Home user. I have been aware of Mathematica in one way or the other since the early 1980’s. At that time I thought I would like to own a Rainbow computer, install Mathematica and become Dr. Rob physicist. However due to economic reality; I enlisted in the Navy as a nuclear operator Rob instead.

After my enlistment I again became aware of Mathematica while going to college at Colorado School of Mines. I did start with the intention of becoming Dr. Rob Physicist, however; my wife caught pregnancy and I stuffed all my 1st and 2nd semester physics courses into electives and became…. Go to work Rob Chemical Engineer…. In hindsight the most excellent thing/decision that could have happened.

Through the years, I did, however; always maintain some level of fascination with Mathematica. In truth my poor math skills would have precluded me being a great (possibly even adequate) physicist. The language simply eludes me someplace around tensors and eigenvalues, etc. I did, however; think if I could just learn to program my way through the heavy math as I did with spell and grammar checkers through English courses. I may have had a better shot. Well let’s just say I never succeeded at the time…In addition I have never looked back as I truly am happy at Chemical Engineering.

Anyway turn the clock forward some decades and my children in High school and Mathematica 7-8 comes out and computer power is so much cheaper, etc. I finally bought a copy of Mathematica and programed a couple of demonstrations and have been hooked one way or the other ever since. Combine that with the fact that I am enamored with Mr. Wolfram’s contribution of Mathematica and the active documents and the repository of knowledge he makes available and his commitment to people like me via the home user pricing, etc., etc. etc.

Anyway, All in all I am very happy to be here. I have some fuzzy and as yet undefined fully, intention of trying to program and utilize Mathematica in my consulting business. I currently model Chemical Process in several commercially available products I won’t name here. I would like to either write code or possible leverage in System Modeler or? In order to possibly give my end users and clients access to interactive documents so that they can do some of their own “what if” analysis in my deliverables, etc. However, to date, this is a lofty goal given my skill set and time constraints so I remain a Hobbyist with a dream for now.

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Greetings, I’m Sevrin, but i preffer to be called Sevy!
I just went through the mathematica summer camp, and had a huge amount of fun. I also learned alot about mathematica, and made a demonstration for the demonstrations project! Hopefully in the next few weeks it will be uploaded, and i may even be able to edit a link into this reply (i hope, haven’t tested this…). Anyway, i found out alot about mathematica, especially the AstronomicalData function.
Well, unfourtunatley i’m not much for giving out personal info online, so that’s it for now!

Edit 1: Yep, i found out i can edit! Will post link to demonstration when (if) it’s uploaded!

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