Wolfram Alpha opens API to developers
News Developers can now put Wolfram Alpha results in their own applications. The company on Thursday opened up its API to open access, allowing coders to query the Wolfram system and incorporate its data, calculations and rich media results.
[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. Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they'd be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer," Stephen Wolfram, the founder...
[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 Wolfram Research said.
[May 14, 2009, 11:07]
On-Demand Supercomputing: Wolfram gridMathematica and Microsoft CCS
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn about the strides that Microsoft and partner, Wolfram Research, have made in the High Performance Computing space. The attendee will learn how Wolfram gridMathematica, combined with Microsoft Windows Compute...
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Physicist remakes universe in computer's image
News Physicist Stephen Wolfram took the stage Wednesday at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, evangelising a computing-centric view of the universe that might sit better with the technology industry than it has with some other audiences.
[November 21, 2002, 7:34]
Apple security patch takes out 64-bit apps
News But the update doesn't just fix security bugs; it also breaks support for 64-bit applications in the operating system, according to Wolfram Research, maker of the Mathematica computation software. Due to an error on the part of Apple, this update...
[August 18, 2005, 9:10]
Coders unfazed by Apple's Intel move
News Theo Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research, said converting Wolfram's Mathematica 5 application, a complex scientific program, took a few hours. Apple developers aren't exactly looking forward to rewriting their applications to run on Intel chips...
[June 7, 2005, 9:55]
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]
CalculationCenter
Downloads CalculationCenter has been designed and tested to the same exacting standards as Mathematica, Wolfram Research's world-leading technical computation software, providing top quality that is affordable.
[March 6, 2001, 7:00]
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]
Microsoft to develop virtualisation management tools
News VMware has the broadest platform any virtualisation vendor supports: we support Microsoft, Linux, Solaris," said Wolfram Weber, VMware's manager of field systems engineers in Germany. Microsoft is to augment its virtualisation platform to enable IT...
[March 4, 2008, 16:26]
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]
Web cooperative unearths top prime number
News The actual digits can be downloaded from Wolfram Research's MathWorld site. An effort in which thousands of people donate their computers' unused processing power has uncovered the largest prime number so far known.
[December 3, 2003, 10:05]
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]
Adobe takes to GridIron
News Wolfram Research's Mathematica calculation and visualisation software can harness grid computing, and Platform Computing has an extension that grid-enables Microsoft Excel. Adobe Systems has signed a deal with GridIron Software that will enable its...
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
