By Graham K. Rogers

One of the most useful applications for those who work with mathematics is Stephen Wolfram's Mathematica. It has been announced that as from today, this is also available as an online version in which users may "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.

On his blog, Wolfram admits to tradeoffs, such as with speed, but the ability to access such functionality online will be of great value to many. The online version will be able to connect with the Wolfram Programming Cloud, which will add to the flexibility.

More information on this new accessibility and much more on Mathematica is available on the Stephen Wolfram Blog.

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs. He is now continuing that in the Bangkok Post supplement, Life.