Posted on Sunday, May 17th, 2009
WolframAlpha launched, so there’s that. (If you need catching up, here’s a screencast explanation.) It looks like fun to play with so far, but it’s hard to get a feel for it. Meaning that it works, but will it become a useful everyday answer/search destination. There’s a decent On The Media story too.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
About a month ago, I told you about Wolfram Alpha, a natural language search engine currently in development. Since then, The Berkman Center at Harvard posted this video demonstration of the technology.
The semantic web. It’s the future, it will happen. Get used to it. Not sure if this will be a Google killer, as so [...]
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Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009
Just when I started to get a handle of Stephen Wolfram’s Mathematica software, the scientists/mathematician is at it again.
In May, Wolfram will unveil his latest creation, now called Wolfram Alpha. It applies his work with Mathematica and NKS (A New Kind of Science) to Web search.
“All one needs to be able to do is to [...]
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