At the ASEE 2014 conference, I spoke with representatives from Wolfram Research and got some updates on the status and nature of The Wolfram Language.

Wolfram Research can already do some pretty cool things, like answer Twitter questions and spot overhead flights. Now, the maker of the Mathematica programming language and Alpha knowledge engine ...

On the Raspberry Pi, use of both Mathematica and the Wolfram Language will be free for individuals, but commercial and other users will have to pay for a license.

It’s a programming language that keeps most of its libraries – for everything from audio processing, high level math, strings, graphs, networks, and even linguistic data – on the Internet.

Now it’s possible to run Mathematica for free on a Raspberry Pi, the credit-card-sized PC that retails for as little as $25–a sort of pilot for a new Wolfram programming language that will be ...