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Wolfram Workbench is the state-of-the-art integrated development environment that makes it easier to build and maintain software solutions written with Mathematica technologies.

Wolfram Workbench is currently available as a prerelease exclusively at UVM as part of our subscription to Wolfram’s Premier Service. All Mathematica users at UVM can download a free copy now for any work machine on which they’ve installed Mathematica through the site license.

Key features in Workbench enable users to:

* Group files, code, and other Mathematica resources into a single project

* Perform source-code editing with syntax highlighting, error reporting, local variable coloring, and many more options

* Study code as it runs to easily detect and fix any problems * Profile code’s execution and develop and run tests, with an array of insightful reporting methods

* Manage multiple versions of files and access their version histories

* Build and deploy Mathematica packages

For more information about Workbench, visit our website at:
http://www.wolfram.com/workbench

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http://www.wolfram.com/services/premiersupport/

Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, Editor: Sigrid Kelsey, MLIS, Louisiana State University

Introduction: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years. Podcasts, Email, the World Wide Web, Blackberries, cell phones, text messaging, wireless connections, and other forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have transformed communication in numerous ways, not only facilitating the speed and sometimes ease of communicating, but redefining and shaping today’s communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important current issues, trends, and technologies related to professional computer mediated communication.

Coverage: The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will feature chapters (5000-7000 words) of a scholarly nature, written by experts offering in-depth descriptions of concepts, issues, and trends in various areas of CMC. The purpose of this handbook is to provide academic articles written in a more non-academic style, in the sense that each article should focus on a specific topic — rather than a general treatment of CMC — keeping in mind a readership with a varied background. This will allow scholarly ideas to be accessible to a wide range of readers. This book will explore various forms of CMC chapter by chapter and discuss the broad implications that each medium is having on communication.

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Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006 (http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006)

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions (second call): 28 July 2006 – The IADIS WWW/Internet 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these
developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

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