WolframAlpha.com WolframCloud.com All Sites & Public Resources... Products & Services Technologies Solutions Support & Learning Company Search Wolfram Technology for Hackathons Absurdly Fast Development & Deployment The latest Wolfram technology stack makes it possible for you to develop and deploy useful applications in minutes. In the Wolfram Cloud or on local hardware, the new Wolfram Language is the ultimate hackathon power tool. With its revolutionary approach of building as much as possible into the language—and automating programming and deployment—the Wolfram Language lets you take big ideas and turn them into reality in the space of a hackathon. Recent Notable Wins TREEHACKS 2016 Aashna Shroff and Farhan Kathawala Hands-on Math » HACKILLINOIS 2016 Kevin Renner, Harrison Qu and Ziwei Ba LookNote » MHACKS 2015 Olivia Walch and Matt Jacobs Draw Anything » |Blog post » HACKNTU Olivia Walch and Matt Jacobs Twig » LA HACKS 2015 Alex Akagi, Will Zhang, Eric Chen and Nic Calle Beta Data » HACK THE ANVIL Pradyuman Vig, Rehana Mahfuz, Sashank Allu and Thomas Satterly LiveTrace AVR » API HACKATHON Felipe Dimer de Oliveira Exceedance » |Blog post » HACKINGEDU 2015 Nicolas Miller and Yosun Chang Vulcan Learning for Humans » HACKPRINCETON Amiel Kollek AlphaTeX » HACKTECH Hirak Modi, Harshil Shah and Bhaskar Bandyopadhyay Fullerene » HACKTECH Suresh Alse and Jashwanth Reddy Madem Paideia » Behind the Scenes with the Recent Winners of MHacks & HackNTU » “[The Wolfram Language] was so easy to pick up and learn quickly. By the end of the 36 hours of the hackathon, we were just writing code and created this amazing product that won.” —MATT JACOBS Top Wolfram Hackathon Platforms WOLFRAM DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM Create programs in the Wolfram Language and instantly deploy them as web apps, APIs or in mobile apps. About Development Platform » Getting started video » WOLFRAM LANGUAGE ON RASPBERRY PI Use the Wolfram Language to compute and interact with hardware on the Raspberry Pi. Included free in standard Raspberry Pi system software » Free for hackathon-level use » Contact your hackathon organizers or apply to Wolfram Research to get the Wolfram Desktop development system and additional Wolfram Cloud Credits. WOLFRAM|ALPHA API Put Wolfram|Alpha capabilities into your project. Contact your hackathon organizers or apply to Wolfram Research to get Wolfram|Alpha API credits » Wolfram Language Popular areas for hackathons Visualization Text Manipulation Time Series 3D Geometry Image Processing Audio Generation Geographic Visualization Data Analysis Natural Language Input Machine Learning Social Network Analysis Financial Data & Computation Cities, Chemicals, Movies & 1,000s of Types of Data Instant API Creation External API Connectivity Device Connectivity Mobile App Deployment Automated Webpage Creation Interactive Webpages Automated Email Automatic Java & .NET Connectivity Instant User Interface Construction Report Generation Computable Documents External Program Scripting Full capabilities » (5,000 built-in functions; thousands of knowledge domains) Note: If you know Mathematica programming, you already know the core of the Wolfram Language. Sample Projects 2048, WOLFRAM STYLE BUILDING A GPS TRACKER WITH THE RASPBERRY PI BUILDING A SOUS-VIDE CONTROLLER USING RASPBERRY PI / MATHEMATICA ANALYZING PEDOMETER DATA WITH MATHEMATICA COMPUTING CELLULAR AUTOMATONS WITH THE WOLFRAM CLOUD IN AN ANDROID APP SIMULATING A GLOBAL EBOLA OUTBREAK HOW TO MAKE A WEBCAM INTRUDER ALARM WITH MATHEMATICA SIMPLE SPRITZ READER ON WOLFRAM LANGUAGE CAMERA CONTROLLED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DOING SPY STUFF WITH MATHEMATICA BÁRÐARBUNGA EARTHQUAKE SWARM 13 YEARS OF CRIME IN CHICAGO IN 1 MINUTE SELF-DESCRIPTION SIMULATING BRAIN TUMOR GROWTH WITH MATHEMATICA 10 AN EXPERIMENT IN MOMENT OF INERTIA WITH RASPBERRY PI / ARDUINO Resources AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION TO THE WOLFRAM LANGUAGE Stephen Wolfram's online book is an introduction to the Wolfram Language and modern computational thinking—no prior knowledge of programming is required. WOLFRAM PROGRAMMING LAB (OPEN ACCESS) Start using today's most advanced programming language to create amazing programs, and get introduced to modern computational thinking. WOLFRAM DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM (OPEN ACCESS) Use the revolutionary capabilities of the Wolfram Language to create and deploy production software systems and applications. CREATE, CODE, DEPLOY WORKSHOP This workshop showcases the fast development and deployment possible with the Wolfram Language and cloud services. WOLFRAM TWEET-A-PROGRAM See amazing things that even tweet-length Wolfram Language programs can do. STEPHEN WOLFRAM'S FORMATIVE MOMENT Watch this episode of Formative, produced by Reddit, to hear from Stephen Wolfram on his views and contributions to computing tools and scientific education. WOLFRAM LANGUAGE HOME PAGE All about the Wolfram Language, including Q&A and a code gallery of projects. STEPHEN WOLFRAM'S INTRODUCTION Video introduction to the Wolfram Language by its creator. FAST INTRODUCTION FOR PROGRAMMERS A 15-minute introduction to the Wolfram Language. WOLFRAM LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION Full documentation for the Wolfram Language, with 100,000+ immediately usable examples. WOLFRAM DEMONSTRATIONS PROJECT Nearly 10,000 open-code interactive Demonstrations implemented in the Wolfram Language. WOLFRAM COMMUNITY Ask questions and get ideas from the diverse Wolfram Community. WOLFRAM DEVICE FRAMEWORK Integrated Wolfram Language framework for connecting to devices. GEEK OUT CONFERENCE VIDEOS See how to build an app in 60 seconds, connect to Arduino and much more. WOLFRAM EVENTS & CONFERENCES Virtual and in-person events, from office hours to Technology Conference to Summer Camp. More Wolfram Resources for Students » What to Do BEFORE THE HACKATHON Get familiar with the Wolfram Language and its deployment and possibilities. Contact Wolfram for any additional resources needed. AT THE HACKATHON We typically provide Wolfram|Alpha API keys and access to Wolfram Development Platform; please contact your hackathon organizer for additional information. AFTER THE HACKATHON Tell Wolfram Community what you did! If it's cool, we'll send you a T-shirt and some other great Wolfram goodies. For Hackathon Organizers Contact the Wolfram Hackathon Group to request Wolfram participation » Products Mathematica Mathematica Online Development Platform Programming Lab Data Science Platform Wolfram|Alpha Pro Mobile Apps Finance Platform SystemModeler Wolfram Workbench CDF Player Volume & Site Licensing Enterprise Private Cloud VIEW ALL... 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