In case you missed the news, the WolframAlpha search engine recently went “live.” In the run-up to the site’s launch, there was lots of buzz on the Internet about how it could be something that ...

WolframAlpha, the Web site developed by the British-born scientist Stephen Wolfram, is billed as a computational knowledge engine. The search engine that is brimming with data can answer all sorts of ...

Wolfram Research, the maker of the popular Mathematica computational software, has released a new platform for visualizing and interacting with complex data sets, the company announced Thursday. Using ...

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 ...

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