Saturday, May 16, 2009

Wolfram¦Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

This engine is the next step... http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing...

1 comment:

jimpurdy1943@yahoo.com said...

It's going to be very interesting to see how this develops.

Since it's not really intended to be a search engine, I don't see it competing directly with Google.

However, eventually it may be competing with Wikipedia as a one-stop reference.