Wolfram Technology at Howard University

Get access to Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, Wolfram|Alpha Pro, and Wolfram Programming Lab

Mathematica is currently installed in the following locations:

Computer Labs

  • All public and general labs.

Computer Clusters

  • The Mathematica license for Howard allows for parallel computing on dedicated research clusters, and in distributed, or ad-hoc, cluster environments. For details, please contact Troy Schaudt at troys@wolfram.com

     

Request Access

To request Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, and Wolfram|Alpha Pro, follow the directions below.

Faculty

Create an account (New users only):

  • Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
  • Fill out form using a @howard.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
  • Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID

Request Access to the Product

Mathematica Desktop

For school-owned machines:

  1. Fill out this form to request an Activation Key
  2. Click the "Product Summary page" link to access your license
  3. Click "Get Downloads" and select "Download" next to your platform
  4. Run the installer on your machine, and enter Activation Key at prompt

For a personally owned machine:

  1. Fill out this form to request a home-use license from Wolfram.

Mathematica Online

  1. Fill out this form to request access
  2. Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

  1. Fill out this form to request access
  2. Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Wolfram Programming Lab

  1. Fill out this form to request access
  2. Go to Wolfram Programming Lab and sign in to access Wolfram Programming Lab

Students

Create an account(New users only):

  • Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
  • Fill out form using a @howard.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
  • Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID

Request access to the product

Mathematica Desktop

For a personally owned machine:

  • Fill out this form to request an Activation Key
  • Click the "Product Summary page" link to access your license
  • Click "Get Downloads" and select "Download" next to your platform
  • Run the installer on your machine, and enter Activation Key at prompt

Mathematica Online

  1. Fill out this form to request access
  2. Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

  1. Fill out this form to request access
  2. Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Wolfram Programming Lab

  1. Fill out this form to request access
  2. Go to Wolfram Programming Lab and sign in to access Wolfram Programming Lab

Are you interested in putting Mathematica elsewhere?

Please let IT or Troy Schaudt at Wolfram Research know.  

Email Troy Schaudt

Tutorials

Mathematica

These tutorials are excellent for new users, and can be assigned to students as homework to learn Mathematica outside of class time.

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

  • Tour of Wolfram|Alpha

    New to Wolfram|Alpha? Take a tour to learn what you can do with Wolfram|Alpha, and explore additional features you get with Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

  • Examples by Topic

    Explore the immense range of areas covered by Wolfram|Alpha's knowledge base.

Wolfram Programming Lab

Teaching with Wolfram Technology

Mathematica

Mathematica offers an interactive classroom experience that helps students explore and grasp concepts, plus gives faculty the tools they need to easily create supporting course materials, assignments, and presentations.

  • Teaching and Learning with Mathematica—Free video course

    Learn how to make your classroom dynamic with interactive models, explore computation and visualization capabilities in Mathematica that make it useful for teaching practically any subject at any level, and get best-practice suggestions for course integration.

  • Preparing and Giving Presentations

    Learn how to create a slideshow presentation that combines graphics, calculations, and nicely formatted text, with live calculations or animations.

  • Wolfram Demonstrations Project

    Download pre-built, open-code examples from a daily-growing collection of interactive visualizations, spanning a remarkable range of topics.

  • Wolfram U Courses on Classroom Resources & Instruction

    Access on-demand and live courses on using Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and other Wolfram technologies in your classroom.

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

  • Discovering the Educational Potential of Wolfram|Alpha—Free video course

    Get an overview of Wolfram|Alpha and learn how to integrate its powerful knowledge into the K-12 classroom. Different ways of accessing Wolfram|Alpha, using prebuilt widgets in your classroom, and resources available to educators will be discussed.

  • Wolfram|Alpha in Your Classroom—Free virtual workshop for educators

    This workshop showed off many exciting new Wolfram|Alpha features for students and teachers. Learn how to use Wolfram|Alpha to inspire authentic learning in your classroom with access to real-world data.

  • Calculus Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar

    Explore functions and their derivatives, integrals and limits using the Wolfram Language. This session shows practice problems with the Wolfram Problem Generator and lesson plans and tips on using Wolfram|Alpha in your calculus classroom.

  • Physics Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar

    Learn about using Wolfram|Alpha for your physics class computations to complement your existing curricula. Interesting blog posts and online resources are shared that help foster curiosity in areas such as mechanics, particle physics, optics and others.

  • Economics Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar

    Access a wide range of socioeconomic and demographic data, currency computations, financial indicators and country data using natural language input. Create stunning visualizations and examine financial equations such as mortgage and annuity through rigorous algorithms.

Wolfram Programming Lab

  • Exploring Programming—Free virtual workshop for educators

    In this free online workshop we discuss methods for introducing computational thinking and programming activities to middle and high school students. We also discuss specific activities that support and introduce computational thinking.

  • Computational Thinking in the Classroom—Free virtual workshop for educators

    Future coders will be engineers, chemists, business analysts — and the list goes on. This workshop introduces Wolfram Language programming and covers classroom coding activities to help teachers incorporate programming into their curriculum.

Research with Mathematica

Rather than requiring different toolkits for different jobs, Mathematica integrates the world's largest collection of algorithms, high-performance computing capabilities, and a powerful visualization engine in one coherent system, making it ideal for academic research in just about any discipline.

Resources for researchers