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 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 ...

You may have heard recently about Wolfram Alpha, a new Web service that some people are projecting (mistakenly, I’m certain) as a “Google killer”. With Wolfram Alpha, you type terms into a field on a ...

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 ...

Last week, I wrote about structuring class time to get students to self-verify their work. This means using tools, experiences, other people, and their own intelligence to gauge the validity of a ...

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 ...

A new "search" engine is out on the web, and geeks are all over it. WSJ's Andy Jordan tests it out on really smart students. Iran’s Foreign Minister Says He Plans to Meet With Putin About U.S. Attack ...

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 ...

Wolfram Alpha now provides an API that lets developers pull results out of its computational engine. However, they'll have to pay, as even the cheapest plan will set users back over two cents a search ...

Wolfram Alpha is like a calculator on steroids. It has a lot of science (math, physics and chemistry) formulas and knowledge encoded. Systems like Wolfram Alpha could provide an expert system ...

A few months before the strikingly well-spoken AI system ChatGPT hit the scene, some of its developers approached renowned computer scientist Stephen Wolfram to show off the app. Not bad, Wolfram said ...