COMPUTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT

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1 COMPUTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT Providing a customer with an interactive data viewer is much more effective than static graphs in a PowerPoint presentation. Steven R. Stuve Senior R&D Engineer, Hamlin Electronics Because I can change parameters on the fly, rerun models, and present results, CDF documents liberate me from the confines of static depictions of models. Seth J. Chandler Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center

2 Today s online documents are like yesterday s paper flat, lifeless, inactive. Instead, the Computable Document Format (CDF) puts easy-to-author interactivity at its core, empowering readers to drive content and generate results live. Example: Infographics and Blogs Turn infographics into infoapps using always-current data and interactive graphics powered by real-time computation. Real-time computation Simulate a complex natural phenomenon in real time using a powerful numerics engine. Immediate results Explore the ranges of the parameters; wave animations are immediately recomputed. Make your site interactive Make content more valuable by letting your readers interact with it directly in your existing website or blog, without requiring extensive redesign or programming. Interactive 3D graphics Click the tabs to see simulations of different types of waves. Rotate the 3D waveforms to see them at different angles.

3 Launched by the Wolfram Group, the CDF standard is a computation-powered knowledge container as everyday as a document, but as interactive as an app. Example: Textbooks Create easy-to-deploy courseware that computes and presents results as students drive produced directly by authors in a single, easy-to-use tool for typesetting, data, and interactivity. Award-winning textbook Pearson s Calculus: Early Transcendentals received the 2011 Textbook Excellence Award for its CDF-enhanced ebook. Streamline your workflow Compose text and interactive examples in the same environment without needing specialized programming expertise. Instant results Interact with mathematical concepts. Interactive figures are recalculated as readers change parameters.

4 Adopting CDF gives ideas a broad communication pipeline accelerating research, education, technical development, and progress. Example: Reports and Presentations Make every report or presentation interactive with real-time computation, enabling customers to test multidimensional what if scenarios. Make every document an application Provide planning tools or investment statements that your clients can use anywhere, not just when they re online. Hierarchical documents Easily include navigation features like buttons, menus, and outlining. Built-in computational power Start with built-in financial functions to speed development of interactive apps. Extend them with our flexible programming language. Live interactive content Transform any element into truly interactive content, not pregenerated or scripted. To explore more examples, visit or demonstrations.wolfram.com

5 THE CDF WORKFLOW FORMULA INTERFACES CODE TEXT CHARTS GRAPHICS DATA Browser Pages Desktop Tablets/Mobile (coming soon) Web Embedded CDF offers easy-to-author interactivity and convenient deployment options that can be used alone or integrated into your existing workflow. Combine text, graphics, and even interactive apps in one document with a single easy-to-use tool, without requiring specialist programming skills. Convert existing content to CDF with XML and MathML processing technology. Manage editorial revisions with annotation tools. CDF documents become enhanced ebooks for the desktop, full-page web documents, embedded web objects, and mobile apps a seamless multiplatform deployment framework. THE POWER BEHIND CDF CDF is built on the same technologies that are behind Mathematica the world s leading computation platform and Wolfram Alpha the world s first computational knowledge engine. Every CDF comes with the technology innovations that Wolfram has brought to the world over decades. Automation by Design Intelligent automation in every part of the system, from algorithm selection to plot layouts to user interface design Built-in Knowledge: Computable Data Real-time access to frequently updated and meticulously maintained computable data Free-Form Linguistic Input Free-form linguistic input lets you type in your idea from a simple plot to a complex image processing operation and get results Integrated Graphics & Visualization Interactive 3D graphics, complex scientific plots, expansive business charts, and automatic graph visualization all fully built in and ready to use Built-in Knowledge: Algorithms Specialized algorithms for many scientific and technical areas, from financial engineering to computational biology Symbolic Documents Everything is an expression, even whole documents, allowing them to be operated on programmatically WAYS TO USE Deploy interactive documents and applications that compute with real-time data: Create interactive reports so clients can explore scenarios and engage with results Bring your analyses to life and support better decision making with interactive presentations for management Design customized computational tools for your department or organization Easily build a platform that generates reports containing live, interactive elements with real-time data Build interactive computational tools into journal articles so readers can confirm analyses Include dynamic graphics and models in textbooks to engage students and provide deeper understanding Create interactive supporting material for web portals that supplement your print projects Develop computationally intensive applications with superior user experience and deployment flexibility

6 WHO USES WOLFRAM TECHNOLOGY? Millions of users from Fortune 500 companies to government departments to thousands of universities worldwide, including: 1010data Cengage Learning Encyclopaedia Britannica Hamlin Electronics John Wiley & Sons Pearson Education Research in Motion Producing structured documents on the fly and instantly publishing them as full-page or embedded web objects. RM Education Touch Press Worldwide Center of Mathematics WHAT EXPERTS ARE SAYING After using the Briggs/Cochran Calculus ebook that uses beta CDF technology, many faculty members have told us, This is how calculus should be taught. [It] has exceeded our expectations and won several industry awards. Developing and deploying print, web, desktop, and mobile app content simultaneously. Bill Hoffmann Executive Editor, Pearson Wolfram technology let me compose the text and all 650 interactive figures in the same document. Even better, it creates a unique ebook that lets you actually interact with the figures on the page through dynamic computation. Dynamically generating and deploying content. Eric Schulz Author and Instructor, Walla Walla Community College Learn more about making CDFs an everyday way to communicate. Join authors, educators, researchers, and other professionals in using CDF technology to develop interactive books, courseware, reports, and applications without specialized programming knowledge. Visit the CDF website to interact with examples, get the CDF InfoKit, and download the Wolfram CDF Player : Wolfram Research, Inc. Mathematica is a registered trademark and Wolfram Demonstrations Project, Computable Document Format, and Wolfram CDF Player are trademarks of Wolfram Research, Inc. Wolfram Alpha is a registered trademark and computational knowledge engine is a trademark of Wolfram Alpha LLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Mathematica is not associated with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. MKT1167 CDF MG WOLFRAM RESEARCH, INC WOLFRAM ( ) (outside US & Canada) WOLFRAM RESEARCH EUROPE LTD (0)