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Newest Version of Maplesoft's Flagship Product Dramatically Improves User Experience

Maple 11 is the Ideal Tool for Researchers, Teachers, and Students in Any Technical Discipline

WATERLOO, CANADA, January 8, 2007 — Maplesoft™, the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science and mathematics, announced a major release of Maple™, the company’s flagship product. Maple 11 features enhancements to its smart document interface, strong computation engine, and connectivity capabilities. The result is a product that enables researchers to develop more sophisticated algorithms or models, teachers to bring life to complex problems, and students to focus on concepts rather than the mechanics of solutions.

With Maple 11, the company is advancing the revolutionary technical document interface technology it introduced two years ago. Maple 11’s intuitive user interface leads the pack among math software with virtually no learning curve to perform even sophisticated tasks. Dozens of interactive tutors, reference tools, and built-in content for mathematics, engineering, physics, and more ensure that anyone can get productive with minimal effort. Its smart document environment produces rich documents that are fully interactive and are as professional looking as a text book.

“We initiated a radical change in the industry when we launched Maple 10, with its superior technical document and knowledge sharing capabilities”, said Maplesoft CEO Jim Cooper. “It changed the way people worked and Maple 11 represents an important leap forward in this direction. It is the leading tool for researchers, teachers, and students in any technical discipline. It also represents Maplesoft’s commitment to transforming the way our customers use technology.”

Maple 11 is supported by an extensive range of academic resources, including curriculum content, e-books and application add-on components. The expansive Maplesoft product line complements Maple 11 with powerful systems for testing and assessment, simulation and modeling, and other applications.

Key Features and Benefits of Maple 11

Maple 11’s world-leading computation engine offers the breadth and depth to handle every type of mathematics. It lets users explore, visualize, and solve even the most complex mathematical problems, reducing errors and providing greater insight into the math. Maple 11’s enhancements increase researchers’ productivity, provide teachers a better environment for developing customized curriculum and lower the learning curve for students. New features include:

Smart Documents

Self-documenting context menus perform calculations and give a description of the steps.
Enhanced plotting capabilities: ability to use natural math notation in titles, legends, labels and tick marks; support for international characters; extensive plot annotation capabilities such as sketching, adding text and math, and drawing lines, shapes and arrows using new drawing canvas tools.
New point-and-click task assistants: Backsolver, Special Functions and Scientific Constants assistants.
Ability to turn documents into an instant slide-show.
Annotation capabilities to provide supplementary information such as references to text and math.
The handwriting recognition feature lets you try out a preview version of developing technology for understanding handwritten mathematics.
Inter-document equation references that allow users to work on calculations with equations from other documents.

Strong Mathematical Computation Engine

New specialty packages for Graph Theory, Physics and Differential Geometry.
Improvements to Differential Equation and Differential Algebraic Equation solvers, including new methods and enhanced support for large systems.
The world's best certified polynomial real root finder, incorporating the RS library, guaranteed to find real roots of polynomial systems. This solver is the fastest in the world for finding all real roots, due to the incorporation of the renowned FGb library, the world's most efficient Groebner bases engine.
Numerous improvements and additions, including multi-core processor support, numeric integration and summation, vector calculus, and more.

Connectivity

Excel import and export capabilities integrated with interactive tools as well as available programmatically.
Improved MATLAB connectivity.
Image Tools package offers improved performance and newly-added manipulation and viewing commands.

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft™ is the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics. Our product suite reflects our philosophy - given great tools, people can do great things. Maplesoft has transformed the way engineers, scientists, and mathematicians use math, enabling them to work better, faster, and smarter.

Organizations across the world have applied Maple in nearly every technical field, including Engineering Design, Operations Research, Scientific Research, and Financial Analysis. Maplesoft's commercial customer base includes Allied Signal, BMW, Boeing, Daimler Chrysler, DreamWorks, Ford, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Raytheon, Robert Bosch, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, and Tyco.

Maplesoft offers powerful and easy-to-use tools that save time and reduce errors.

MapleT is a powerful tool for solving complex mathematical problems and creating rich technical documents
Maple Toolbox for MATLAB® combines the best in symbolic and numeric computation to develop mathematical solutions
BlockBuilderT for Simulink® is a First Principles physical modeling environment that offers automated export to Simulink
MapleNetT allows users to publish live Maple documents on the Web
The Professional Toolbox Series provides domain-specific tools that focus the core Maplesoft products on discipline-specific applications

We believe that if you touch math, you need Maple. Visit www.maplesoft.com to learn more.

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