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Welcome to the June 2007 Issue of the Maple Reporter!
The Maple Reporter provides all the latest news from Maplesoft,
with articles highlighting new products, innovative application
areas, tips and techniques, events, and much more.
This month’s issue highlights the new Streaming Video and RSS Feeds added to the Maplesoft Website. In addition, check out the latest review of Maple, and two new demo movies – Clickable Calculus and
Real-Time Simulation of a Full-Vehicle Dynamic Model. Also, check out this month’s Tip & Techniques, and the new additions to the Maple Application Center.
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News & Announcements
| Clickable Calculus Demo Movie |
| “Clickable Calculus” refers to Maple 11’s remarkable set of user-interface features that makes common mathematical operations as easy as pointing and clicking. View our new Demo movie to see how Maple’s new-generation user interface allows students and new users to become proficient with Maple without the burden of learning commands and their related syntax. |
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Introducing Streaming Video by Maplesoft – Introduction to Maple 11
Maplesoft now has streaming video for demo movies. What is streaming video? Playing video immediately as it is downloaded from the Internet, rather than storing it in a file on the receiving computer first. The result is a higher quality video that you can start watching right away.
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User Case Studies
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Using Maple T.A Improves Final Test Results of Engineering Students
Two years ago, the Polytechnical Institute of Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden in Holland (NHL) introduced a collection of online math exercises using Maple T.A. Since then, 95% of the engineering students who regularly evaluated their math knowledge with Maple T.A. online exercises passed with significant improvement in their final scores.
To read this user story or others visit Maplesoft User Case Studies. |
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Product Tips & Techniques
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| Maple Adoption Program™ |
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Are you teaching with Maple?
Looking to have a free HOME USE copy of Maple 11?
Would you like to save your students money on today’s leading Math Software?
Sign up your courses today for the Maple Adoption Program!
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| Books |
Thomson Engineering has incorporated Maple into two of their best selling publications: Engineering Mechanics: Statics, and Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics – Computational Edition(s) by Robert Soutas-Little, Daniel J. Inman, and Daniel S. Balint. The two texts focus on the conceptual understanding of mechanics but with a totally new method of presentation; using computational software to compliment the level of computer sophistication possessed by today’s engineering student.
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Maplesoft Webinar Series
The Maple Application
Center has received the following new applications over
the last month:
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Prof. Jack Weiner, May 8, 2007
In this episode, Tom Lee has an engaging conversation with Prof. Jack Weiner from the University of Guelph, about the impact of new math teaching tools and the appropriate use of emerging technology in the classroom. Jack is an award winning teacher and the author of "The Math Survival Kit”. Tom also sits down with Jan Bakus, a senior applications engineer at Maplesoft, to talk about BlockImporter and why someone in the simulation and modeling world should get excited about this new product. In addition, Stephanie Rozek, a marketing engineer at Maplesoft, joins us for the latest news. This episode is also fortified with outtakes. |
This month, the members of MaplePrimes , Maplesoft’s online user community have turned their focus back onto themselves. There were two main threads discussing the activity of users on MaplePrimes. The first was started by JacquesC, who decided to start a thread tracking the Maple ranking of MaplePrimes users. This ranking is an indication of how active a user is on the website, more active users receive a special icon next to their name. The other thread was a discussion started by alec on the total number of posts made over time by users. Come join in the discussion yourself, visit MaplePrimes today. |
Maplesoft in the Press
Here are some highlights of this past month’s press coverage.
do u im + txt or r u 1 who dsnt?
Control Engineering, May 25, 2007
Tom Lee, vice president of market development at Maplesoft writes in this contributed article, “There is a huge technology divide in society, but it is not where you might think it is. This divide does not separate those who have computers and those who don’t. It’s instant messaging. ...Working in new media has been a great way to reignite the passion that brought me into engineering. The ability to explore and share the most interesting parts of our profession has not only been therapeutic, but it has contributed to our company’s overall customer service and promotional efforts.”
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Predictive Modeling Targets Unexploded Ordnance Location
DesignFax Online, May 18, 2007
This article looks at the use of Maple and the Global Optimization Toolbox in solving the challenge of accurately locating and discriminating unexploded ordnance (explosives). “It was established that UXOMF provides the highest accuracy of UXO discrimination, and its usage has led to a reduced need to dig test holes.”
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Tactile Culture
The Record, May 13, 2007
This article covered Tom Lee’s presentation on China at a tech forum organized to help high-tech companies break into Asian Markets. “Lee said piracy is a huge problem in China, but there still are a large number of legitimate customers who are willing to pay for solid technology products...Companies need to develop market sensitive business practices, he said, which include regular phone calls rather than email messages, and trying local cuisine.”
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