An Impressive Release for Modern Times June 23, 1988 is when we launched Version 1.0 of Mathematica . Today—almost 38 years later—we’re launching Version 15 of what—in recognition of how far it’s expanded beyond “math”—we now call Wolfram Language . It’s an impressive release, with a lot of new core functionality. It might perhaps seem surprising that after 38 years there’d still be more to add. But it’s like the typical arc of intellectual history: the more one’s figured out, the further one can see, and the more one becomes able to do. And for all of us working on it, it’s been a very satisfying process: year after year building an ever taller tower of ideas and technology, with which we can reach ever further—today to all the functionality of Version 15. For the past four decades we’ve had a consistent mission: to apply the computational paradigm as broadly and deeply as possible—and to do so by building our unique computational language to represent and compute about the world.…