A92: TI-92 takes top honors @ ISSAC 97...
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A92: TI-92 takes top honors @ ISSAC 97...
Just a little note on the power of the 92... ISSAC stands for International
Symposium on Symbolic Algebra Computation.
From: Kutzler@swp.co.at (Bernhard Kutzler), on 7/27/97 7:14 AM:
Following is a report on the TI-92's success at the systems challenge at
ISSAC'97. You may want to use this for publication in
- TI CARES
- Eightysomething!
- the various local TI newsletters such as "Hypothese"
- public media
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David beats Goliath:
TI-92 wins "System Challenge" at Math Software conference.
At this years world conference of computer algebra (held on Maui, July
21-23) Texas Instruments' new powerful calculator TI-92 entered a
competition, in which developers of mathematics software packages such as
Mathematica had to solve, then present their solutions to 10 very difficult
mathematical problems. The handheld TI-92 could solve 8 of the 10 problems
and was among the three winners (there was a three way tie for the first
place). Taking into account the size of the machine, the TI-92 finally was
declared overall winner.
Four commercial mathematics software packages, all of them running on large
computer systems, and the handheld symbolic calculator TI-92 entered the
competition that was announced only two weeks prior to the conference. The
TI-92 Team, lead by David R. Stoutemyer, solved 8 of the 10 "heavy"
mathematical problems. At the conference, each team had to present their
solutions. The winner was choosen according to delegates' votes, which were
based on the correctness and quality of both the solution and the presentation.
B Kutzler, Univ Linz, Austria, email: kutzler@swp.co.at
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The TI/SoftWarehouse stand at ISSAC certainly created a VERY positive
attitude towards the TI-92. This and the fact that David Stoutemyer and his
team solved most of the problems with a tool that is so much smaller than
the four competitors, contributed to this well deserved victory.
If the ranking would have been done more formally but with the size of the
tool taken into account (hardware-power-weighted ranking), the TI-92 still
would have won!
-bernhard kutzler
Shawn Prestridge
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