mber of cases, he also connects via API to third party information, but mostly for real-time data such as a current stock price or current temperature. Rather than connecting to and relying on the current or future Semantic Web, Alpha computes its answers primarily from his own curated data to the extent possible; he sees Alpha as the home for almost all the information it needs, and will use to answer users' queries.<br /><br />In an important sense, Alpha is a logical extension of Mathematica:  it extends