Re: Wolfram/Alpha
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- Subject: [mg97311] Re: Wolfram/Alpha
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:38:21 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi, it is already well known that the answer will be "42" Regards Jens Ingolf Dahl wrote: > I am not involved, and know nothing about it, so I can speak open about it > without risking being killed for that (hopefully!). I am as curious as > anyone. > > There is more to read beneath the following link > > http://www.twine.com/item/122mz8lz9-4c/wolfram-alpha-is-coming-and-it-could- > be-as-important-as-google > > Saturday morning (March 7, 2009) I found the following on Wikipedia, > "Wolfram Alpha": > "Wolfram|Alpha is a new futuristic search engine equipped with artificial > intelligence, to be introduced in May 2009 by Wolfram Research. Its > spiritual father, Stephen Wolfram, explains that it will be able to > translate natural language into a format comprehensible to computers and > search through trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of > algorithms to provide the user with a valuable answer." > > In the same evening, the entry was deleted, since it met Wikipedia's > criteria for speedy deletion "as an article about a web site, blog, web > forum, webcomic, podcast, browser game, or similar web content that does not > indicate the importance or significance of the subject." > > What to say about that? > > Ingolf Dahl > Sweden > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dbreiss at gmail.com [mailto:dbreiss at gmail.com] >> Sent: den 8 mars 2009 11:54 >> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >> Subject: Re: Wolfram/Alpha >> >> As you might expect, any who are in the know, and who tell, >> would have to kill or be killed. >> >> Suffice it to say that it is very interesting and will grow >> into something quite overarching. >> >> --David (who wants to remain alive) >> http://scientificarts.com/worklife >> >> >> On Mar 7, 2:39 am, magma <mader... at gmail.com> wrote: >>> I just read the latest intriguing blog entry on the Wolfram site. >>> It reports the May 09 opening of the the Wolfram/Alpha >> site: a sort of >>> omniscient super google cum curated data, if I understand well. >>> >>> Does anybody knows a bit more (and is willing to speak :-) ) ? >>> >>> What I find also amazing is that this project must have engaged a >>> considerable amount of WRI resources, financial time and human, yet >>> they managed to keep all this very quiet. >>> >>> Exciting isn't it? >> >> > > >
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