February 2011

Mathcad A-Z: A is for Algorithms (for ODEs)

Hello everyone, Today, we are introducing a new series of blog posts – “Mathcad A-Z”. For the next 26 weeks, we will post a short article every Monday, highlighting one term related to Mathcad. As we have a mix of followers on this blog – some of you are highly experienced power users, others may be students and/or beginners with …

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Meet a Mathcad Prime Developer – Pradeep Selvakumar

Recently I sat down with Pradeep Selvakumar, a software development manager on the Mathcad Prime team.  What I was hoping to capture was about 90 seconds or so of some of the hard-working people that are bringing you Mathcad Prime.  Instead, I got a longer interview, and responses to questions that I’m guessing you all want to hear.  The video …

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Implementer 10.1 now available

We are rolling out a new release of our IBM i ALM offering known as Implementer 10.1 this week. The major theme of this release was to simplify administration of patches and service packs… Continue reading

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Mathcad and the Three Bears

My four-year-old daughter Mia is a big fan of the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We read it a lot, so much so that we have developed a game of making variations to the story: Goldilocks and the Three Chairs, Goldilocks and the Three Fairs, etc. Today I want to play our little game with the readers of the …

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Manufacturers Get Social

As our lovely, romantic Valentine’s Day holiday approaches, I have to admit I’ve strayed, Social Product Development blog. I recently contributed a guest post to Microsoft’s Vertical Industries blog: Manufacturers Get Social. The post is about the different interpretations of Social Product Development in the industry today – and the potential value of each. Here’s an excerpt: As a result, …

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Mathcad Prime in Urban Agriculture: Snow Farming in Boston

So, I live in Boston, and yes, we have a lot of snow this year. So very much snow, I am starting to think about everything in relation to snow. I have recovered from the shock of the Patriots loss to the Jets – it seems like 4 feet of snow ago. Mathcad Prime 1.0 launched during the big storm, …

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Analyze Data With New Box Plots in Mathcad 15.0 and Prime 1.0

Mathcad’s New Box Plots We’ve introduced three new plot types to both Mathcad 15 and Mathcad Prime 1.0. Box plots, effects plots, and Pareto plots provide quick visualization of data. Here’s how to make a box plot. You may know box plots as box-and-whisker diagram. Box plots were first introduced by statistician John Tukey in his book, Exploratory Data Analysis, …

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Mingling with Mathcad Users in China and Japan

Hi Folks, Mathcad General Manager Jake Simpson and Director of Operations, Brent Edmonds had the opportunity to meet and talk with customers at the PlanetPTC events in China and Japan.  These events attracted over 2000 total attendees and received a significant amount of press coverage due to the announcement of several new products.  The event kicked off with presentations from …

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