eecs 441- company presentation
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Searches the Web, !looks for textual matches
and returns links
Generates a specific answer by doing computations from
it’s knowledge base
What do they do?
History
Wolfram Research !(Founded By !
Stephen Wolfram)!!
1987
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1988!!
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Mathematica !(Flagship Product)
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2009!!
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WolframAlpha !(Launch)
A New Kind Of Science !(Flagship Product)!
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2002
“Make it possible to compute !
whatever can be computed about anything”
Linguistic Analysis!!
Curated Data!
Dynamic Computation !!
Computed Presentation !!
What do they do?
Financials • A private company with no outside investors!
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• Revenue Model:!- Wolfram Alpha Pro ($5.49 per month) and other paid iOS apps!- Licensing: Search Engines (Bing and DuckDuckGo) and Voice Q/A (Siri, S Voice
and more) !- Enterprise and Custom Solutions !
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• 100 employees
Secret Sauce
30 years of long-term R&D and ongoing development of robust technology at Wolfram Research
30 !
years
Buy or Sell?
• Buy!
• Applications of this technology are huge
‣ Licensing
‣ Business Intelligence ($14B/year)
‣ How can they market it for a layman?