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It Does Compute--All Across Campus
6/13/2007
Mathematica 6.0, the most comprehensive upgrade to Wolfram Research Inc.'s (www.wolfram.com) famous computational software in the company's 20-year history, has arrived on the University of Mississippi campus. And at UM, just about everyone will have a chance to try it out. Jason Hale, manager of research support in the Office of Information Technology at UM comments that the university’s site license, in place since 2005, should allow the software to become "an inherently usable, interdepartmentally-standard computational tool…the student site license was considered a must-have."Cite this Site
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