Whenever someone tells me they're building a search engine that will do things better than Google, I am skeptical. Not because I think Google does everything well, but because it is very hard to build ...

Stephen Wolfram, the man behind computing-application Mathematica and the search engine Wolfram Alpha, has a short attention span that's married to a long-term outlook. When asked what his favorite ...

Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a little help from a very smart friend. Wolfram Alpha and Bing have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialized scientific ...

Stephen Wolfram has a track record of scientific breakthroughs and some controversy. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1979 when he was 20 and has focused most of his career ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Wolfram Research yesterday launched Wolfram Alpha Notebook Edition for ...

Having read–and even written–that Wolfram Alpha is some sort of cyber wonderbrain, I must say that now that I am using it I feel a bit underwhelmed. I do not know what I was expecting, but an online ...

Wolfram Alpha has made some fairly big strides in its few short years of existence, but the so-called computational knowledge engine has now rolled out what founder Stephen Wolfram says is the "the ...

Wolfram Alpha LLC announced Monday the general availability of Wolfram|Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” available on the Web that shares code with Mathematica, Wolfram Research’s renowned ...

Apple wasted little time approving Wolfram Alpha’s new iPhone app, which we hinted at last week. Just a few days after they submitted it to the store, Apple sailed it right through the approval ...

Wolfram Alpha is online for testing throughout the weekend, in anticipation of the online knowledge base officially going live on Monday. Although the launch team warned in the Wolfram Alpha Blog that ...

It seems that most people who have had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha (myself included) agree that it will do a few things to Google: it will drive it to innovate in semantic search and it will ...