Igor Bakshee, an applications developer at Wolfram Research, gives an overview of Mathematica 8's built-in functionality for analysis, design, and simulation of continuous- and discrete-time control systems.

Jon McLoone of Wolfram Research's technical communication and strategy group gives an overview of Mathematica 8's financial computation capabilities, including comprehensive derivative and time value of money calculations and bond ...

Conrad Wolfram gives an overview of Mathematica 8's free-form linguistic input, which allows users to enter plain English and get immediate results.

Shadi Ashnai, Wolfram Research's manager of image processing, gives an overview of Mathematica 8's image processing and analysis functions for composition, segmentation, feature detection, and transformation.

Tom Wickham-Jones, director of kernel technology at Wolfram Research, gives an overview of Mathematica 8's compiler technology, including its use of automatic code generation and linking and automated multicore parallelism.

Roger Germundsson, director of research and development at Wolfram Research, gives an overview of Mathematica 8's functionality for probability and statistics computations and visualizations.