Software upgrade boosts desktop productivity

Maple 9.5 is the latest version of the principal desktop productivity environment from Maplesoft used by industry, research organisations, and academic institutions worldwide.

Maple 9.5 is the latest version of the principal desktop productivity environment from Maplesoft used by industry, research organisations, and academic institutions worldwide.

Maple 9.5 builds on the primary design themes that embody all core Maplesoft products.

Rock solid numerics and world-leading symbolics seamlessly integrated to offer the most powerful and extensive solver suite in technical software.

New features include: integrated algorithms for optimisation problems; solvers for differential-algebraic equation systems for advanced modelling applications; and major performance improvements.

The release also includes effective new tools to manage technical knowledge, including: an integrated dictionary of engineering and mathematical terms for instant access to reference information; user interface improvements that make complex operations intuitive and quick; enhancements to interactive plotting; and new features for advanced users to streamline programming and application development.

New features for education include: a student multivariate calculus package including computational routines, topic-specific visualisation, and innovative Maplet-based tutors; enhancements to the precalculus package and improved support of Maplesoft's MapleNet, and Maple TA e-learning solutions.

Dr Laurent Bernardin, Maplesoft's Chief Scientist states: "Maple 9.5 strengthens our lead in many of the principal dimensions of technical computing.

Our beta testers have already confirmed our belief that Maple 9.5 will be the environment of choice".

Maple 9.5 is the ideal platform for scientific and engineering problem-solving, mathematical exploration, data visualisation and technical authoring.

It transforms the way technical professionals and students use technology.

Seamlessly integrating the power of rock-solid numerics with world-class symbolics, Maple 9.5 offers full computing support for any activity involving mathematics allowing users to encapsulate and manage technical knowledge.

In industry this facilitates true collaborative knowledge management.

In the classroom the technology frees the student and teacher to focus on concepts and not the error-prone manipulation.

Supporting this powerful technology is a rich user environment unsurpassed in ease-of-use and an extensive range of features to shorten the learning curve and to maximise productivity gains.

Maple TA provides schools with a complete infrastructure for creating, administering and grading free-form, online mathematics exams and assignments.

Maple TA grades assignments with the Maple engine, the most trusted software for exploring mathematics and developing mathematical applications.

Maple TA frees schools from the cost, effort and limitations of traditional paper-and-pencil assessment.

It allows easy randomisation of questions in order to hinder cheating and encourage repetition of exercises.

It also lets instructors include free-form mathematics questions on assignments, even when there are thousands of students in the class.

MapleNet provides educational institutions with a complete set of infrastructure and client tools for online education in mathematics and mathematics-dependent courses.

MapleNet allows authors/professors to create exercises and learning objects that are interactive and easy to use.

The student requires only a Java-enabled web browser to interface with the material.

MapleNet is derived from the legendary Maple software system, widely recognised as the most trusted desktop application for exploring mathematics and developing mathematical applications.

Consequently, the scope of learning objects that can be created with MapleNet is virtually unlimited, as the Maple engine supports computation ranging from high-school level algebra to research-level theory.

Maple 9.5 will be available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and various Unix platforms.

Maple is supplied and supported in the UK and Ireland by Adept Scientific.

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