WolframAlpha

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Frank Morgan

Guest post by Brennon of CampusBookRentals.com

Stephen Wolfram is one of the most famous and innovative Mathematicians of our time. In February, he gave a presentation for the TED Awards about “Computing a theory of everything,” where he discussed his computational software, Mathematica and WolframAlpha. Mathematica can be used “not just for computation, but for modeling, simulation, visualization, development, documentation, and deployment.” WolframAlpha is free, a computational knowledge engine that allows you to compute just about anything. Today I’d like to focus on WolframAlpha. Continue reading →

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Tools To Simplify The Application Process

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Derek Smith

By Derek Smith

I have spent the past few months focused on two projects: applying for graduate fellowships and wrapping up loose ends at my job as a software developer. I’d like to share some of the details of my system for simplifying the application process and describe how it was influenced by my (relatively short) career in software.

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Broadening Scholarship

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Brian Katz

by Brian Katz

What is your job as a graduate student? I think the answers to this question that you’ll hear floating down the halls differ substantially, depending in part on the definition of scholarship at your institution. And these definitions are changing.

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Summer School and Workshops

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Brian Simanek

By Brian Simanek

When the academic year ends, some graduate students have considerable freedom in how and where they choose to spend their time.  Some students work, some find teaching positions, and some do research.  These are all good ways to spend the summer as a graduate student, although my focus here will be on a different option: summer school.

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Overflowing Options

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Kareem Carr

By Kareem Carr

I started answering this question from a commentor,

BC Reddy:

Hi,
Could you post a list of all such “Stack overflow” websites that you know… It will be helpful…

Thanks

In the middle of answering, I realized that I should probably turn this answer into a post.

There are new Stack-Overflow-type websites emerging all the time. There is a site which shows many of the ones in development called Area 51.

For instance, I see a theoretical computer science one is going to go live in a few hours. I suspect that will be of interest to some readers here.  A lot of ones that I mentioned recently have not existed for very long.

There is a list of established sites.

In addition, there is a very large list of websites which seem to have been created using the stack exchange software that can be found here.

I am sorry for providing so many lists but I don’t know of anywhere that has them all in one place.

UPDATE: The theoretical computer science site is now active.

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