Thursday, November 21, 2013

Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi

Stephen Wolfram announced he's Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi. "Last week I wrote about our large-scale plan to use new technology we’re building to inject sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. Today I’m pleased to announce a step in that direction: working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, effective immediately there’s a pilot release of the Wolfram Language—as well as Mathematica—that will soon be bundled as part of the standard system software for every Raspberry Pi computer."

I never would have guessed that the new Wolfram Language would (ever) run on a $25 computer, let alone first. I'm going to have to rethink what the future will be like.

"Then there are two applications on the Pi powered by this engine. The first is a command-line version of the Wolfram Language. And the second is Mathematica with its notebook user interface, providing in effect a rich document-based way of interacting with the Wolfram Language..."And it’s the whole system. Nothing is left out. All 5000+ Wolfram Language functions. All capabilities of Mathematica and its notebook interface."

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