

And then use the Wolfram Cloud to store your files, so you can access and compute with them from anywhere with Mathematica Online. But get Mathematica Online too (which is easy to do-through Premier Service Plus for individuals, or a site license add-on). If you have desktop Mathematica installed on your machine, by all means use it.

And within desktop Mathematica, you can seamlessly access notebooks and other files that are stored in the cloud. Because from Mathematica Online there’s a single button that “peels off” a notebook to run on the desktop. And I, for one, expect routinely to use both of them. There are also lots of great things about traditional desktop Mathematica. There are lots of great things about Mathematica Online. Even better, there’s soon going to be a Wolfram Cloud app that provides a native interface to Mathematica Online, both on tablets like the iPad, and on phones:

Or, for example, in a class, a professor can create notebooks in the cloud that are set so each student gets their own active copy to work with-that they can then email or share back to the professor.Īnd since Mathematica Online runs purely through a web browser, it immediately works on mobile devices too. You can also easily collaborate: all you have to do is set permissions on the files so your collaborators can access them. But because its Cloud CDF interface is running directly in the web browser, it can immediately be embedded in any web page, without any plugin, like right here:Īnother huge feature of Mathematica Online is that because your files are stored in the cloud, you can immediately access them from anywhere. For example, Manipulate can’t be as zippy in the cloud as it is on the desktop, because it has to run across the network. It’s taken a lot of effort, but we’ve been able to implement almost all the major features of the standard Mathematica notebook interface purely in a web browser-extending CDF (Computable Document Format) to the cloud. You interactively build up a computable document, mixing text, code, graphics, and so on-with inputs you can immediately run, hierarchies of cells, and even things like Manipulate. It’s a notebook interface, just like on the desktop. Instead, all you have to do is point a web browser at Mathematica Online, then log in, and immediately you can start to use Mathematica-with zero configuration. In the past, using Mathematica has always involved first installing software on your computer. It’s been many years in the making, and today I’m excited to announce the launch of Mathematica Online: a version of Mathematica that operates completely in the cloud-and is accessible just through any modern web browser.
