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 ...

Back in March, Radar Networks CEO Nova Spivack blogged about Wolfram|Alpha, a new Web service from Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram, and said it could be as important as Google. Nova’s a smart guy, ...

Wolfram|Alpha creator Stephen Wolfram did an interesting compare and contrast with his answer engine and the way IBM's Watson Jeopardy supercomputer operates. Stephen Wolfram is the creator of ...

Wolfram Alpha LLC announced Monday the general availability of Wolfram|Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” available on the Web that shares code with Mathematica, Wolfram Research’s renowned ...

[Stephen Wolfram], possibly the only person on Earth who wants a second element named after him, is giving away Mathematica for the Raspberry Pi. For those of you unfamiliar with Mathematica, it’s a ...

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 dog.