Back in March, Radar Networks CEO Nova Spivack blogged about Wolfram|Alpha, a new Web service from Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram, and said it could be as important as Google. Nova’s a smart guy, ...

Wolfram|Alpha creator Stephen Wolfram did an interesting compare and contrast with his answer engine and the way IBM's Watson Jeopardy supercomputer operates. Stephen Wolfram is the creator of ...

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 ...

CNET News editor Rafe Needleman and reporter Stephen Shankland discuss their ups and downs with the search engine that computes. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Wolfram Alpha is probably the most useful site on the internet. It's not a search engine, it's not an encyclopedia, and it's not a calculator, but it's a little bit of all of that. It's really the ...

On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), the new services includes ...

“Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input.” I’ve been seeing that phrase a lot lately, as I spent a bit of this weekend trying to figure out what the self-styled computational knowledge ...

[Stephen Wolfram], possibly the only person on Earth who wants a second element named after him, is giving away Mathematica for the Raspberry Pi. For those of you unfamiliar with Mathematica, it’s a ...

Wolfram Alpha is opening up its data via an application programming interface. It's a good move that allows others to take advantage of collective information resources. Dave Rosenberg has more than ...