Wolfram Alpha is not Google. You don't hear anybody using Wolfram Alpha as a verb. "I don't know, let me Wolfram Alpha it" lacks a certain ring. However, Wolfram Alpha is doing a nice job positioning ...

Stephen Wolfram, the man behind computing-application Mathematica and the search engine Wolfram Alpha, has a short attention span that's married to a long-term outlook. When asked what his favorite ...

Stephen Wolfram has a track record of scientific breakthroughs and some controversy. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1979 when he was 20 and has focused most of his career ...

It seems that most people who have had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha (myself included) agree that it will do a few things to Google: it will drive it to innovate in semantic search and it will ...

Editor’s note: Below is a guest post from Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, about a new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha being developed by computer scientist Stephen Wolfram.

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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 ...

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