Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.

The application programming interface (API) allows other applications to extend and enhance Alpha. He produced a series of papers systematically investigating the class of elementary cellular automata conceiving the Wolfram code a naming system for one-dimensional cellular automata and a classification scheme for the complexity of their behavior. SMP was further developed and marketed commercially by Inference Corp.

Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine.