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The introduction of Wolfram|Alpha defined a fundamentally new paradigm for getting knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms and methods.

Bringing broad, deep, expert-level knowledge to everyone… anytime, anywhere.

Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.

Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.

We work to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.

Energetically developed for more than a decade, Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver ever-increasing capabilities over the years to come.

With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, we are constantly working to create what we hope will stand as a major milestone of 21st-century intellectual achievement.

he first was the Wolfram Language—the language that grew out of Mathematica and in which Wolfram|Alpha is implemented. The Wolfram Language has three crucial roles in Wolfram|Alpha. First, its very general symbolic structure provides the framework in which all the diverse knowledge in Wolfram|Alpha is represented and all the operations on it are implemented.

Second, the vast web of algorithms built into the Wolfram Language provides the computational foundation that makes it even conceivably practical to implement the methods and models of so many fields. And finally, the strength of the Wolfram Language as a software engineering and deployment platform makes it possible to take the technical achievements of Wolfram|Alpha and deliver them broadly and robustly.