The 2006 Maple Conference began yesterday at Wilfred Laurer University in Waterloo, Ontario Canada. People from around the world have gathered in order to exchange ideas, learn new things and enjoy the company of the Maple User Community. If you are currently attending the conference, please add a comment to this post and tell us how you are are finding the conference thus far.

If you ever wanted to be able to download the manuals for Maple and other Maplesoft products, you now can download PDF versions of the manuals. Manuals include; Maple, Maple T.A., and MapleNet User Manuals, Maple 10 Quick Reference Cards, Maple Introductory and Advanced Programming Guides, and more. Download them all from the Maplesoft Documentation Center.

In this episode Tom Lee sits down with John McPhee the inventor of Dynaflex Pro, in his office at the University of Waterloo to discuss dynamic models of physical systems, difficulties one might encounter when commercializing a product, and his work on modeling the piano hammer action. Paul Goossens joins us via telephone from the American Control Conference to talk about DynaFlexPro and other engineering products; and we bring you an interesting selection of news and mailbag items.

In this episode Tom talks with Dr. Janos Pinter about how to optimize decisions under resource constraints, the early days of computing, and his thoughts about studying in a communist country. He joins us via telephone from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Eithne Murray stops by again to discuss the fascinating world of programming in Maple; and we have also information about using the new Intel-based Mac port of Maple and a new e-book on understanding and computing derivative securities. Click here to get the latest episode.

Maplesoft just announced that a new version of Maple has been released that works on Intel based Macs. You can get full information on how to download this update on the Maple 10.04 download page The full press release is found below: