Another week another Google killer. Last week, it was Twitter as Google killer. This week it's Wolfam Alpha. The difference with Wolfram Alpha is that it has the pedigree, engineering heft and perhaps ...

On the very first day of Wolfram Camp, I called Stephen Wolfram “Steve.” “It’s Stephen, actually,” said the world’s most controversial physicist in his crisp-yet-droll British accent. In another life, ...

It's so much more than algorithms. Wolfram Alpha is not Google. They may look and even feel similar, but Google it is not. Google helps users navigate the expansive global Web via a friendly (but ...

This article originally appeared on TechRepublic. When it came to figuring out which computer scientist should help linguists decipher inscrutable alien texts, it was Stephen Wolfram who got the call.

Mathematician and scientist Stephen Wolfram grew up in a household where his mother was a philosophy professor at Oxford University. As such, his younger self didn’t want anything to do with the ...

How do I install and learn Wolfram Mathematica on my Mac? Mathematica is a powerful piece of software for Mac OS X/macOS (and other operating systems) that’s used by scientists and engineers. It’s ...

Stephen Wolfram believes he has created the ultimate natural search engine and it’s coming in May 2009. Called Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine can understand a fact-based question and return a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Every once in a while, a revolutionary idea comes along that has the ...

The novel coronavirus has derailed everyday existence for all of us, forcing us to make difficult choices. But a few weeks ago, Stephen Wolfram’s dilemma was unique. What should you do, he wondered, ...

Thanks to Kevin Bacon, everybody nowadays knows about networks. There are not only Bacon-like networks of actors, linked by appearing in the same film, but also social networks, neural networks and ...