| NEWS |
| New Twist on Ancient Math Problem could Improve Medicine, Microelectronics |
| It turns out we've been missing a version of the famous "packing problem," and its new guise could have implications for cancer treatment, secure wireless networks, microelectronics and demolitions ...continue |
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| Mathematics: First-ever Image of Flat Torus in 3-D |
| Just as a terrestrial globe cannot be flattened without distorting the distances, it seemed impossible to visualize abstract mathematical objects called flat tori in ordinary three-dimensional space. However, a team of mathematicians and computer scientists has succeeded ...continue |
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| Sports Data helps Shed Light on Southpaws |
| Lefties have always been a bit of a puzzle. Representing only 10 percent of the general human population, left-handers have been viewed with suspicion ...continue |
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| PolyZoom a New Tool to View, Study Graphics |
| Researchers have created a next-generation zoom function to view and compare portions of complex graphics such as scientific images, city maps or pages of text. The new tool, PolyZoom, makes it possible to simultaneously magnify many parts of a graphic without losing sight of the original picture ...continue |
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| Our Perpetual Ocean: Ocean Currents Captured in Scientific Visualization |
| The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents were captured in a scientific visualization created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...continue |
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| World’s Fastest Random Number Generator Developed from Sounds of Silence |
| Researchers at The Australian National University have developed the fastest random number generator in the world by listening to the sounds of silence ...continue |
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| ARTICLES |
| The Manga Guide to Relativity: Real Relativity, Real Easy! |
Making an intensely complex subject understandable to the non-physicist
John A. Wass, Ph.D.
Well, relatively! I didn’t ask to review this book, but my wonderful contact at No Starch Press (read Geeks Anonymous) sent The Manga Guide to Relativity thinking that the subject may interest me. After sitting on it for too many months, I finally got around to reading a few pages. After 10 pages, I was hooked ...continue |
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| Good Experimental Design Pays Dividends Continuously |
Judicious selection of a logical sequence of designs leads to a model that pays for itself
Mark A. Anawis
The journalist David Brinkley once said “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” In science and engineering, a good experimental design is the key to a successful product, as well as understanding a process. A good design creates a useful mathematical model that can be used to understand and optimize a process. ...continue |
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| STATISTICA 10: The Power of Statistics and Data Mining Simplified |
User base broadens from scientists and engineers to business and social science areas
John A. Wass, Ph.D.
Web Exclusive
In the past, I have extolled STATISTICA 10 statistical software for its ability to cover just about any type of test the user may need. Now, the product line consists of bits and pieces of the whole for special applications and/or limited needs. The new Data Miner product contains all of the routine and advanced statistical tests, as well as a number of very sophisticated mining routines. All of this is still wrapped in a very straightforward and, in my opinion, simple user interface. Although some of the nomenclature will be unfamiliar to the new user, much of it is still intuitive, and the developers have done their homework in keeping the learning curve gentle. ...continue |
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| The UnscramblerX: Still a Remarkable Niche Product |
This intelligent engine borders upon data mining, as it cuts through prediction and classification problems
John A. Wass, Ph.D.
What’s so remarkable about it? Well, for one, it was originally geared to chemical engineers, but is now used by a wide spectrum of chemists. The package is remarkable for its choice of tools, namely experimental design (DOE) and multivariate statistics. It does a good job of both, and the developers have added many new features (this is NOT your father’s version 9.2!). As with most software, it has its own way of doing things and takes a little getting used to. However, with a little practice, the routines get easier and the learning curve is not steep. ...continue |
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| Origin Automation |
An extremely flexible tool for acquiring, processing and displaying data
John R. Joyce, Ph.D.
Origin 8.5.1 is a full-featured data analysis and graphing package that has been the target of previous reviews in Scientific Computing. Here, we will take a more in-depth look at the many automation features to be found in both Origin and OriginPro. These include several different ways of automating its internal processes, ways for it to control external processes and ways for external processes to control it. In the following text, we will examine these capabilities and some of the ways in which they can be used, as well as constructing examples illustrating some of the approaches to go about doing it. ...continue |
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| Maple 15: How do they do it?! |
This newest version contains 270 new mathematical functions and over 1000 enhancements to existing algorithms
John A. Wass, Ph.D.
For those new to this software, perhaps a little background is in order. Maple is mathematical software that is constantly being improved as to breadth of the calculation routines, optimality of the algorithms, speed of computation, and ease-of-use. The last is one of the most useful features, as the new user can quickly come up to speed by testing the menu items, going through the tutorials and reading the pertinent sections of the manuals (there are just two; a User’s Manual and a Programming Manual). If this doesn’t do it, there is an excellent support desk, and the user community called Maple Primes. ...continue |
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| PRODUCTS |
| Tecplot RS 2012 with Interactive Grid Comparison |
| Tecplot RS 2012 reservoir simulation visualization and analysis software has 2-D and 3-D grid plot comparison capability, allowing users to compare up to four different grid solutions, side-by-side ...continue |
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| AdviseStat |
| AdviseStat is an intelligent analytics advisor that decides on the user’s behalf how best to analyze the data it’s given ...continue |
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| DataMaster 5.1 Geospatial Data Management Tool |
| DataMaster 5.1 is an advanced geospatial data tool that offers defense map, terrain and full-motion video management ...continue |
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| Maple 16 Technical Computing Software |
| Maple 16 is technical computing software for mathematicians, engineers and scientists. Tools and techniques include a Clickable Math collection ...continue |
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| RealTime StatMiner 4.3 |
| RealTime StatMiner 4.3 is a tool for qPCR analysis on TIBCO Spotfire that allows users to upload and analyze data from a large range of qPCR vendors ...continue |
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| Caedium CFD Accelerator |
| A beta release of the on-demand Caedium CFD Accelerator cloud product, the first of two Caedium-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) service products running on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform, is now available ...continue |
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