Wolfram Alpha opens API to developers
News Developers can now put Wolfram Alpha results in their own applications. However, the post, by Wolfram's Schoeller Porter, did mention developer ideas for using Wolfram Alpha programmatically, from "researching cancer through computational biology...
[October 16, 2009, 12:22]
Bing, Wolfram Alpha agree licensing deal
News Microsoft's Bing search engine and Wolfram Alpha have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialised scientific and computational content that Wolfram Alpha generates, according to a source familiar with the deal.
[August 24, 2009, 8:20]
Wolfram Alpha search engine goes live
News The data search and computation engine Wolfram Alpha has gone live. Wolfram Alpha allows users to input a query to obtain statistical and other data around a search term. In the Wolfram Alpha FAQs on the company website, the firm noted that it was...
[May 18, 2009, 15:49]
Wolfram Alpha boosted by super-fast HPC
News Wolfram Research revealed on Tuesday that it is building its Wolfram Alpha service on the world's 66th-fastest supercomputer. We hope so," Wolfram Research said on its Wolfram Alpha blog on Tuesday Some of what goes on behind the Alpha covers is...
[May 14, 2009, 11:07]
Bing integrates Wolfram Alpha health results
News Microsoft has integrated results from the Wolfram Alpha computation engine into its Bing search engine. Bing is one of Wolfram Alpha's first application programming interface (API) customers, Wolfram Alpha developer relations architect Schoeller...
[November 12, 2009, 13:45]
Wolfram Alpha...
Talkback Was always going to be best utilized through integration into the mainstream search engines, which is great.
[November 12, 2009, 15:20]
Google rolls out changes to aid complicated searches
News Wolfram Research, for example, plans to reveal a search technology called Wolfram Alpha in May that is specifically designed to handle longer questions people might ask a search engine, and some of Google's new changes appear to help the company...
[March 25, 2009, 14:45]
Google Wave Developer Preview: screenshots review
Reviews This is the Wolfram Alpha robot at work, answering queries and adding supporting information to the wave. Google Wave is built around HTML 5, so you'll need to use what Google calls a 'modern browser' — Chrome, Safari or Firefox (or IE with Google...
[September 23, 2009, 10:58]
IBM probe detects an atom's charge
News According to Wolfram Alpha, it takes a force of 65 piconewtons to pull a strand of DNA apart by pulling on each end. A development in nanotechnology at IBM's Zurich Research Lab shows a new level of sensitivity in measuring subtle forces among atoms.
[June 15, 2009, 17:07]
Interesting...
Talkback Microsoft is on it collating mission again, I haft to wonder though does this really make a difference to the average guy at the end of the chain.
[August 24, 2009, 21:59]
Yes it is
Talkback It could make a big difference to us actually, as WA has a huge potential to be the search engine we have all wished google was - that is, returning an answer rather than a giant bundle of useful links.
[August 25, 2009, 16:52]
