Wolfram Alpha is opening up its data via an application programming interface. It's a good move that allows others to take advantage of collective information resources.

Wolfram Alpha opened up its API to open access, allowing coders to query the Wolfram system and incorporate its data, calculations and rich media results.

Developers can now put Wolfram Alpha results in their own applications. The company today opened up its API to open access, allowing coders to query the Wolfram system and incorporate its data ...

Wolfram Alpha’s API (application programming interface) 2.0 gives developers more access from numerous types of applications. With the new API, developers can integrate its results into a web ...

Wolfram Alpha now provides an API that lets developers pull results out of its computational engine. However, they'll have to pay, as even the cheapest plan will set users back over two cents a ...

Not long ago “computational engine” Wolfram Alpha struck a deal with Microsoft to license some of its data to Bing. Now, according to the Guardian UK, Wolfram is going wide with that strategy ...

All of this is a shame, because the API appears like it could be useful. But Wolfram is over-promising what Alpha can deliver and setting a financial bar too high for general use.

Wolfram|Alpha, the very impressive fact engine, has announced their new API that will allow third-parties to access and display results from their ...

The response to Wolfram Alpha, and the interest from the community in using the API to build innovative computational knowledge applications, has been staggering," said Schoeller Porter, technical ...

The API allows your application to interact with Wolfram|Alpha much like you do on the web—you send a web request with the same query string you would type into Wolfram|Alpha’s query box and you get ...