Dear Colleagues, I'm pretty new to the list however I've accidently found something about SAGE on the web and also tried to use it 1 year ago or so. It is a great software, thank you for developing it.
Today I found 2 entries about WebMathematics Interactive (WMI) in your list so I'd like to comment them in very short. On 4/5/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I came across WebMathematics Interactive. It is an open source web > interface to different CAS. What is interesting to me is how easy it > is to use. What do you think of the SAGE Notebook having a mode like > WebMathematics Interactive? > > Live demo: http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/ > Devel info: http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/wmi/developers-howto/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmi That's pretty interesting . This appears to be a GPL'd Hungarian project that hasn't been updated in almost 4 years. It offers users online access to both MuPAD and a version of Maple (Maple 5) from a long time ago -- I very much doubt that's legal, but maybe the Hungarians don't care about such things. It doesn't save any state, does not allow one to execute arbitrary commands, and does not allow one to write programs. What it does do is provide access to very specific functionality, e.g., compute an antiderivative of a given function. I certainly envision having something like this for SAGE, and maybe Timothy is the guy to fill in a lot of functionality once appropriate infrastructure is in place. William First of all, thank you for taking the time and trying WMI. Our main purpose was to create a really easy-to-use web based small software which can help in the daily teaching. So, we continuously work on WMI, however we don't have such a big developer team as SAGE has. Unfortunately. In Hungary it's quite difficult to find professors who can really help towards scientific results (=papers) AND software development. However, we would like to announce WMI2 within a week during the CADGME conference, Pecs, Hungary. Our Maple 5 is completely legal, we have a full campus license. That time we purchased that license there were no restrictions on network use like embedding web based CAS interfaces. I always considered the Maple usage legal because it is just a demo interface and the downloadable live CD doesn't contain it at all. In addition, I also wrote the MuPAD development team who didn't answer me at all. I must tell you that WMI also works with Maxima (which is clearly legal) and, of course, it is the default CAS for both WMI1 and WMI2. I agree that Hungarian people usually don't feel such strict emotions in legalism like Western European countries. This is a general rule, but it is changing. Personally, I'm fully committed to the legal software, especially free software. I think we have different goals in developing SAGE and WMI, however there are common parts. I think you are doing a great job and many tricks and ideas can be taken from it to enhance the user interface for students and teachers. In fact, WMI1 saves some states within a session (e.g. magnification ratio, ranges). This will be enhanced in WMI2. What WMI1 (and WMI2) does very well is the extensive caching of problems and solutions. I think it is a big advance if many students want to use it at the same time. William Stein wrote: <SNIP> > > > This appears to be a GPL'd Hungarian project that hasn't been updated > in almost 4 years. While that seems to be true for the website at the University of Szeged, the sourceforge site is still active: Posted By: kovzol Date: 2006-07-25 23:22 Summary: WMI 1.0.2 has been released The website and the live demo looks much too slick to be 4 years old, too. Cheers, Michael This is the latest version which has no big changes since 1.0.0 but some fine-tuning was added. In fact, WMI1 is in a statistics gathering phase. We collect feedbacks. We, like many other teachers and students in Hungary, continuously work with WMI1 during the teaching classes at the University of Szeged with an average of 400 hits and 750 newly solved problems per day. As we gain much experiences we have many ideas how to extend WMI to fit our needs much more. Now WMI2 is in a pre-alpha stage, but I'd like to share the beta version with you as soon as it is available for public visits. That's for the first time. Best regards, Zoltan Kovacs assistant professor University of Szeged http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/~kovzol <http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/%7Ekovzol> -- matek.hu --- mert matekból érettségizni mindenkinek kell... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
