Wolfram Alpha
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WolframAlpha is an online knowledge engine developed by Wolfram Research that has been around since 2009. It is offered as an online service that answers queries by computing answers from externally sourced data.
Key facts
- Website.name
- WolframAlpha
- Website.logo
- Wolfram Alpha December 2016.svg
- Website.caption
- WolframAlpha is based on the computational platform Mathematica, written by British scientist Stephen Wolfram in 1988.
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.type
- Answer engine
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.owner
- WolframAlpha LLC
- Website.author
- Wolfram Research
- Website.programming_language
- Wolfram Language
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Usage
- References
- Footnotes
- External links
WolframAlpha is an online knowledge engine developed by Wolfram Research that has been around since 2009. It is offered as an online service that answers queries by computing answers from externally sourced data.
== History == Launch preparations for WolframAlpha began on May 15, 2009, at 7:00 pm CDT with a live broadcast on Justin.tv. The plan was to publicly launch the service a few hours later. However, there were issues due to extreme load. The service officially launched on May 18, 2009, receiving mixed reviews.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wolfram Alpha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.