Wolfram Mathematica 7 (Student)

Following closely on the dramatic reinvention of Mathematica in 2007, Mathematica 7 continues the momentum of innovation to deliver an array of new capabilities, greatly extending the state of the art in many areas and bringing a dozen major new application fields into the integrated framework of Mathematica.
If you are doing anything technical, Mathematica will be useful for you not just for computation, but for modeling, simulation, visualization, development, documentation and deployment.
Why Mathematica is right up your street? Because this one integrated system delivers unprecedented workflow, coherence, reliability and innovation. Rather than different toolkits for different jobs, Mathematica has been built ground-up over nearly 20 years to deliver one vision: the ultimate technical application and environment.

Key Features:

Built-in Digital Image Processing & Analysis:
* Modern extensible platform for digital image processing;
* Efficient implementations of all standard image processing algorithms;
* Image data can be processed using hundreds of built-in Mathematica functions;
* Efficient top-level representation of images, abstracted from data representation;
* Images in visual form can be used directly as input, and included in programs;
*General image cropping, padding, resizing, rotating, etc;
*Streamlined image adjustment, sharpening, blurring, etc;
*Collection of special image and photographic effects, with arbitrary extensibility;
* Color conversion, separation, quantization; multiple color models;
* Efficient linear and nonlinear filters for spatial and frequency-domain processing;
* General image filtering and convolution with arbitrary neighborhoods and functions;
* Image arithmetic and general image compositing;
* Complete set of multichannel morphological image processing primitives;
* Built-in morphological component detection, Euler characteristic, etc;
* Partitioning into arrays of images, and reassembly from arrays;
* Support for up to 64-bit depth per channel, and arbitrary numbers of channels;
* Automatic support for optimized image storage, including channel interleaving;
* Support for color and alpha channel in all applicable operations;
* Full integration of images into Mathematica interface construction system.

Built-in Parallel Computing:
* Multicore parallelism standard with zero configuration on all versions of Mathematica;
* Parallelize function for automatic parallelization of Mathematica code;
* Automatic parallel versions of iteration and functional operations;
* ParallelTry function for speculative parallelization;
* Flexible data parallelism functions built directly into the Mathematica language;
* Broadcast functions for separate evaluation on multiple subkernels;
* Automatic and tunable division of computations for parallel load balancing;
* Built-in concurrency primitives for full control of concurrent computations;
* Shared memory capabilities for symbols and functions;
* High-level synchronization with critical section support;
* Automatic and manual subkernel management;
* High-level mechanisms for distributing definitions to subkernels;
* In-notebook display of concurrent process status;
* Full user interface for manual configuration of parallel architecture;
* Parallel debugging and profiling through Wolfram Workbench;
* Built-in support for the Wolfram Lightweight Grid System for ad hoc parallel networks;
* Built-in support for Microsoft, Sun, LSF, PBS, etc. cluster management systems.

Visualization & Graphics:
* Automated Charting Graphics;
* Vector & Field Visualization;
* Comprehensive Spline Support.

Whats New?

Vector Visualization Functions:
* StreamPlot make a stream plot from a vector field function;
* VectorPlot plot vectors from a vector field function;
* StreamDensityPlot superimpose plots of vector and scalar field functions.

Visualization Functions:
* DiscretePlot plot discrete sequences specified by formulas.

Charting Functions:
* BarChart;
* PieChart;
* BubbleChart;
* RectangleChart;
* Histogram;
* BarChart3D;
* PieChart3D;
* BubbleChart3D;
* Histogram3D.

Fully General Splines:
* BezierCurve 2D or 3D composite Bzier curves of any degree;
* BSplineCurve 2D or 3D B-spline (NURBS) curves of any degree;
* BSplineSurface B-spline (NURBS) surfaces of any degree.