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 ...

The problem is when you get a small number, it often comes back in scientific notation. Suppose you didn’t know that Wolfram has all the reactance calculators built-in.

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The much-hyped Wolfram Alpha launches Friday night, and it has Internet-goers howling with anticipation. But the new search engine's business model could prove to be a real ...

See how you can use Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine to generate passwords, find answers for math, algebra, solve equations, integrals, solve differential equations, etc.

Ever looked at Wolfram Alpha and the development of Wolfram Language and thought that perhaps Stephen Wolfram was a bit ahead of his time? Well, maybe the times have finally caught up because Wolfr… ...

Use of Wolfram|Alpha is difficult to trace, and in the hands of ambitious students, its perfect solutions are having unexpected consequences.

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 ...

That development is Wolfram Alpha Pro, a new premium service that will run you $4.99 a month (or $2.99/month for students) and give you access to a wealth of new options for both input and output.

Wolfram|Alpha has two ambitious goals: to accept queries in natural English language instead of a programming language with a rigid syntax and to go beyond computer algebra to become a universal ...

Wolfram Alpha is almost more of an engineering accomplishment than a scientific one — Wolfram has broken down the set of factual questions we might ask, and the computational models and data ...

Microsoft's search engine has reached some sort of deal with Wolfram Alpha to display Wolfram content in Bing search results, although the details are still unclear.

All of this is a shame, because the API appears like it could be useful. But Wolfram is over-promising what Alpha can deliver and setting a financial bar too high for general use.