Wolfram announces 'most important' project: a programming language that models the world

Stephen Wolfram at a conference earlier this year (NEXT Berlin / Flickr). The power of Wolfram Alpha — the intelligent search engine that can answer natural language questions and solve complex math problems — is being built into an upcoming programming language that its founder, Stephen Wolfram, says will be incredibly easy to use. The language, Wolfram writes, is "a way to go from an idea to a fully deployed realization in an absurdly short time." It's called Wolfram Language, and it's a...