Thread: Components of Alpha

The main technologies behind this engine include:

Data curation: WolframlAlpha uses public and licensed proprietary data sources, and the company uses automated processes and human choices to prepare the data.

Algorithms: Alpha must pick the right computational processes to present its results. Inside Wolfram Alpha are 5 million to 6 million lines of Mathematica code that implement all those methods and models.

linguistic analysis to understand what a person typed.

Presentation: Inside Alpha, there are tens of thousands of possible graphs.