Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is a sponsor for the Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Mathematics Competition (CMIMC).

History
Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine or computeptation knowledge engine that was written in 15 million lines of Wolfram Language code, and it runs on more than 10,000 CPUs. Its database includes hundreds of datasets. It was developed by Wolfram Alpha LLC, which is a subsidiary of Wolfram Research. Wolfram Alpha is based off of Wolfram Mathematica, Wolfram's earlier flagship product. Preparations for launch began on May 15, 2009 on 7 pm CDT, and was broadcasted lived on Justin.tv. Later, the service was officially launched on May 18, 2009. On December 3, 2009, an iPhone app mimicking the web browser site of Wolfram Alpha was introduced. Later, on October 6, 2010, an Android Version of the app was released. Since then, it became available for Kindle Fire and Nook. On February 8, 2012, Wolfram Alpha Pro was released. It allowed users to access additional features by paying a monthly fee, such as the ability to upload more types of files.

Partners
Here is a list of some of the licensing partners of Wolfram Alpha.
 * Microsoft Bing
 * DuckDuckGo
 * Brave web browser
 * Apple's Siri
 * Samsung's S voice
 * Iris
 * Dexetra's speech recognition
 * BlackBerry10's voice control software