Physicist and software architect Stephen Wolfram, best known for creating the math visualization program Mathematica, has annouced an ambitious project to change the way we search for information on the Internet.
Physicist and software architect Stephen Wolfram, best known for creating the math visualization program Mathematica, has annouced an ambitious project to change the way we search for information on the Internet.
According to Wolfram, while computers today can only look up any information that’s been generated and stored, we can’t currently ask anything new and have an answer computed or inferred for us.
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His current project, dubbed Wolfram|Alpha, is a “computational knowledge engine” to be fi rst represented as a single website with a text fi eld into which users will be able to type questions. Using “trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms”, the site should be able to answer simple fact-based questions, even if they are written in non-standard variations of English such as slang and shorthand.
Sun, Sep 20, 2009, by Mitul R Desai
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