Mathematica User Experiences Archive

You never can tell just where you might find the influences of Mathematica at work--high in the sky, deep down on the ocean floor, in your favorite shampoo, or even at the local playground. Here is a user story archive of the many creative ways that users have put Mathematica to work.

Major manufacturers rely on machine learning framework for Mathematica to optimize automated assembly-line processes »	A Mathematica animation in physical 3D was one of the works on display in the Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2000 »
Mathematica is being used to model restructured electric power markets »	Cryptonomicon author Neal Stephenson uses Mathematica to illustrate his best-selling novel »
Researchers have developed a complete workflow in Mathematica to build customized endplates for spinal disc prostheses »	A Mitsubishi researcher finds Mathematica to be the perfect interdepartmental communication tool »
Insolvable until recently, the Robbins conjecture was visualized with help from Mathematica (downloadable Mathematica notebook) »	Finance professionals are finding that the standard textbook models for derivatives trading are flawed and are correcting them with Mathematica »
Wiki-webMathematica builds a Mathematica web community »	The world's largest 3D display screen was created with Mathematica »
gridMathematica adopted to explore large-scale questions in human immunity »	Mathematica is used for medical studies, including AIDS research »
webMathematica website wins international mathematics award »	Mathematica assessed risk in the Cassini space launch to Saturn »
Researchers at Skidmore College have devised an innovative way to make the most of their gridMathematica installation »	Veteran Mathematica user Steven Skiena is showing the fun of discrete mathematics with Combinatorica »
Computer science professor sculpts award-winning art with Mathematica »	Mathematica offers a new twist on skateboard turning »
Mathematica Helps 17-Year-Old in "Junior Nobel Prize" Contest »	Möbius Climber lands at Sugar Sand Science Playground »
Mathematica simulates the sound of the Big Bang »	Boeing engineers use Mathematica to create a new precision surface-coating technology »
Blind optical physicist pursues technical career with the aid of Mathematica »	Mathematica makes possible a vanishing velodrome at the 1996 Olympics »
South Africa's National Disaster Atlas uses webMathematica technology to fight catastrophic events »	Top German research institutes, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, make Mathematica their preferred technical computing software »
Heart damage assessment goes off line »	Target location system gets a closer look »
Math professor uses Mathematica to create educational animations »	Mathematica gets slick with rebuild of paper machine »
Three-dimensional plotting helps biologists characterize a compound organism »	Textile design comes under the influence of Mathematica »
Mathematica probes decline in sea lion population »	What's your preference--corn flakes or granola, "NYPD Blue" or "The Simpsons"? »
Mathematica deciphers satellite images »	Mathematica designs betting games »
Art inspires a lesson in calculus »	It's a bird! It's a plane! It's origami! »
Renowned computational scientist and author Richard Crandall is at his "primes" »	Mathematica is used to position the California Port Patrol »
Mathematica enters the ring in this new fighting-robot craze »	The Harker School is teaching its students to think more Mathematica-lly »
A California math teacher and her high school students are pushing the limits of traditional learning with Mathematica »	The new generation of finance professionals is learning its skills in a new way using Mathematica »
Mathematica aids in tsunami tracking »	Mathematica predicts the behavior of shampoo »
Mathematica is used to apply civil engineering techniques to plastic surgery »	Chemical kinetic modeling with Mathematica helps ensure air quality »
Japanese fashion designer Eri Matsui puts Mathematica on the Tokyo catwalks »	Scientists at CERN create a new state of matter called "quark-gluon plasma" »
Denmark is among the first to use webMathematica technology for education »	Mathematica turns mathematics into graphics for TV »
"6 Integers" is a Mathematica-generated musical composition »	Mathematica helps prepare the Bay Bridge for Earth's next tremble »
Mathematica helps cryptographer Sarah Flannery become Irish Young Scientist of the Year »	Researchers at Stanford University develop a prototype of a liveboard interface to Mathematica »
Mathematica analyzes the motion of running »	Mathematica helps create freeway soundwalls »
Mathematica serves many functions for the faculty, staff, and students of the MACHBA universities in Israel »	Astronaut Michael Foale places a customer service call to Wolfram Research from the space station Mir »
Exploratorium educates with Mathematica »	Mathematica searches for gene sequences »
Mathematica helps discover the largest known prime number »	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses Mathematica in AIDS research »
Threatened species are studied with Mathematica »	Protein structures are studied with the aid of Mathematica »
Mmm...Mathematica makes things taste good »	Mathematica is used to keep genetic analysis equipment on the cutting edge »
Mathematica puts cotton to the test »	Mathematica models landslides »
Mathematica helps researchers analyze bee behavior »	Mathematica is used as an architect and architectural historian »