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atest release strengthens leadership among desktop tools for technical professionals

Adept Scientific are pleased to announce the upcoming release of Maple 9.5, the latest version of the principal desktop productivity environment used by industry, research organisations, and academic institutions world-wide from Maplesoft™, the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics.

Maple 9.5 builds on the primary design themes that embody all core Maplesoft products.

Rock solid numerics and world-leading symbolics seamlessly integrated to offer the most powerful and extensive solver suite in technical software. New features include:

* New integrated algorithms for optimisation problems.
* New solvers for differential-algebraic equation systems for advanced modelling applications.
* Major performance improvements.

Effective tools to manage technical knowledge. New features include:
* Integrated dictionary of engineering and mathematical terms for instant access to reference information.
* User interface improvements that make complex operations intuitive and quick.
* Enhancements to interactive plotting.
* New features for advanced users to streamline programming and application development.

Innovative features for education. New features include:
* New student multivariate calculus package including computational routines, topic-specific visualisation, and innovative Maplet™-based tutors.
* Enhancements to the precalculus package.
* Better support of Maplesoft’s MapleNet™, and Maple T.A.™ e-learning solutions.

Dr. Laurent Bernardin, Maplesoft’s Chief Scientist states, “Maple 9.5 strengthens our lead in many of the principal dimensions of technical computing. Our beta testers have already confirmed our belief that Maple 9.5 will be the environment of choice.”

About Maple 9.5
Maple 9.5 is the ideal platform for scientific and engineering problem-solving, mathematical exploration, data visualisation and technical authoring. It transforms the way technical professionals and students use technology. Seamlessly integrating the power of rock-solid numerics with world-class symbolics, Maple 9.5 offers full computing support for any activity involving mathematics allowing users to encapsulate and manage technical knowledge. In industry this facilitates true collaborative knowledge management. In the classroom the technology frees the student and teacher to focus on concepts and not the error-prone manipulation. Supporting this powerful technology is a rich user environment unsurpassed in ease-of-use and an extensive range of features to shorten the learning curve and to maximise productivity gains.

About Maple T.A. and MapleNet
Maple T.A. provides schools with a complete infrastructure for creating, administering and grading free-form, online mathematics exams and assignments. Maple T.A. grades assignments with the Maple engine, the most trusted software for exploring mathematics and developing mathematical applications. Maple T.A. frees schools from the cost, effort and limitations of traditional paper-and-pencil assessment. It allows easy randomisation of questions in order to hinder cheating and encourage repetition of exercises. It also lets instructors include free-form mathematics questions on assignments, even when there are thousands of students in the class.

MapleNet provides educational institutions with a complete set of infrastructure and client tools for online education in mathematics and mathematics-dependent courses. MapleNet allows authors/professors to create exercises and learning objects that are interactive and easy to use. The student requires only a Java-enabled Web browser to interface with the material. MapleNet is derived from the legendary Maple software system, widely recognised as the most trusted desktop application for exploring mathematics and developing mathematical applications. Consequently, the scope of learning objects that can be created with MapleNet is virtually unlimited, as the Maple engine supports computation ranging from high-school level algebra to research-level theory.

About Maplesoft
Maplesoft is a world leader in mathematical and analytical software. Its suite of products include Maple 9.5, the standard among interactive mathematical software, MapleNet a comprehensive mathematical infrastructure for the Web, and Maple T.A. a system for automated grading of mathematics tests. Maplesoft products embody the most advanced and integrated technology for both numeric and symbolic solution of complex problems. Its standards-compliant algorithms are renowned for is speed, accuracy and reliability. In addition, Maplesoft leads the market with innovations that make the management of technical knowledge – whether in industry, or in a classroom – more effective and efficient. Over 5 million users benefit from advanced Maple technology. Maplesoft’s industrial customer base includes Boeing, Bosch, Canon, and NASA. Additionally virtually every major university and research institute in the world, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Waterloo, has adopted Maple products to enhance their education and research activities.

Maple 9.5 will be available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and various UNIX platforms. Full details are available at http://maple.adeptscience.co.uk. Maple is supplied and supported in the UK and Ireland by Adept Scientific plc, Amor Way, Letchworth, Herts. SG6 1ZA; telephone (01462) 480055, fax (01462) 480213, email maple@adeptscience.co.uk; a wide varietyof full and upgrade licence options is available from Adept Scientific for academic and commercial users

With offices in the UK, USA, Germany and throughout the Nordic region, Adept Scientific is one of the world’s leading suppliers of software and hardware products for research, scientific, engineering and technical applications on desktop computers.