Great potential for a tool, but you have to climb a steep learning curve before it's useful.

Using it to develop new (or improve existing) Computer Vision algorithms. It has reduced considerably our iteration times.

This software accompanied me through my high school and university career for all my calculus courses - it has been truly indispensable during that time.

Wolfram is very good as mathematical computation engine. When it comes to solves the difficult mathematical problem, it is the very much needed solution for all kind of problem. You can solve whole of Calculas of mathematics with this tool. Also, along with that it offers a lot of other thing for image processing, machine learning and more.

I've had to learn Mathematica in college to supplement my calc 1 and 2 experiences, yet learning Mathematica is far more difficult than calculus. Often Mathematica code won't run for entirely unexplained reasons. The program is often unintuitive and aggravating, and for a program touting its usability, this is unacceptable.