Wolfram Alpha, the analytics-based "answering engine" built by Stephen Wolfram on his Mathematica software, is drawing immense hype even before its launch later this month. An invention that could ...

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 ...

In the new Bing-enabled world, search is hotter than ever. Your entire Search Insider lineup has been trading quips and forecasts about the future of search. Aaron Goldman thinks Hunch may be the ...

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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 is set to launch Friday, and creator Stephen Wolfram has published a great screencast that demonstrates the strengths of his new tool. I've watched the entire screencast, and I've read ...

IBM calls its know-it-all computer "Watson" and now, there is an app for that -- using another computer named "Wolfram Alpha." Richard Hart reports on the Drive To Discover a computer that can ...

The problem is Wolfram Alpha isn't a search engine and never claimed to be. In fact, the first question on the site's FAQ list is just that, and the answer is -- no. What the company claims it to be ...

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 ...

My youngest son often asks whether a particular object in the sky is a planet or a star. If it's a planet, of course, he wants to know which planet. Some of them I can pick out. Venus isn't usually ...

The massive information engine Wolfram Alpha just added a whopping 649 Pokémon to its database. For fans of the games, that fact is pretty cool all on its own, but if you happen to own an iPhone or an ...