Wolfram

Wolfram, the company Stephen Wolfram founded in 1987, builds software for mathematics, modelling and computational knowledge. Its headquarters are in Champaign, Illinois, with European and Asian bases in Oxfordshire and Tokyo. It sells to businesses, universities, schools, government bodies, non-profits and individuals, and also takes on build and consulting work.

What Wolfram offers

• Mathematica — launched in 1988 and used for symbolic and numeric calculation, visualising results and analysing data.
• Wolfram Language — the language that powers every Wolfram product, with a large built-in library covering fields like machine learning.
• Wolfram|Alpha — a knowledge engine that answers questions asked in everyday language.
• System Modeler — modelling and simulation of physical systems across several engineering domains.
• Cloud and deployment — Wolfram|One, Wolfram Cloud and a private cloud option for running notebooks in a browser or on in-house servers.
• Engine, Player and services — tools for running Wolfram code elsewhere, plus AI access and custom development.

Who it works with

The company serves commercial, academic, government and individual users, with separate editions for each. It also publishes courses, documentation and educational programmes for students.

Key facts

• Based in: Champaign, Illinois, United States
• Founded: 1987
• Team: more than 700 employees, as the company states
• Platforms: desktop, cloud and mobile versions of several products