The computer scientist who developed part of the question-and-answer capability that was licensed by Apple Inc.’s Siri has launched a data-analysis tool for business. Wolfram Alpha Enterprise, named ...

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 ...

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.

In his keynote presentation to SXSW 2014 last week, computing pioneer Stephen Wolfram demonstrated the capabilities of his new Wolfram Language. But he ended his talk with a radical vision of the ...

Ever looked at Wolfram Alpha and the development of Wolfram Language and thought that perhaps Stephen Wolfram was a bit ahead of his time? Well, maybe the times have finally caught up because Wolfram ...

Hardware Google claims it has made a 'major breakthrough' in quantum computing with an algorithm 13,000X faster than a traditional equivalent, although not everyone is convinced Gaming Industry This ...

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here SAN FRANCISCO — I asked Stephen Wolfram how he could make his ambitious new Wolfram Language into a commercial ...

Stephen Wolfram – the physicist who created Mathematica – reflects on how this computational tool has changed in 30 years, and on the practical and conceptual role that computational thinking plays in ...

Silicon Valley is full of imperial visionaries whose mission is to take down Google, which now controls about 64 percent of the search market worldwide. They range from Microsoft to newcomers like ...

Stephen Wolfram has had the sort of career that The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper might identify with: PhD in particle physics at 20, youngest-ever MacArthur Fellow at 21. At 26, Wikipedia tells us ...

In a nutshell: Launching the project in the midst of a global pandemic may seem almost "disrespectful" (his words, not mine), but according to Wolfram, he also thought it could serve as an ...