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Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics

Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed "computational knowledge engine" at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing a global reference library and said Wolfram/Alpha will launch in "a few weeks." Wolfram's demonstration was one...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Algorithm, Search Engine, Analytics, Knowledge, Data, Search Result, Wolfram/Alpha, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram/Alpha Search Engine, Search, Engineering, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

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Bing, Wolfram Alpha agree on licensing deal

On Microsoft-Wolfram DealI think we are gradually seeing web dominance shifting from Google. Facebook now have bing search on their site, Microsoft has a search deal with Yahoo and now Wolfram. Rather than a dominante force that Microsoft once imparted on the Windows, peharps we would see a number of...

Tags: SEARCH, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., licensing deal

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith

Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...

Tags: Knowledge, Wolfram Research, Ontology, Nova Spivack, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Wolfram Alpha won't ask and won't tell

Wolfram Alpha won't ask and won't tellwolfram alpha wants to be a brainbut it does not have all the data to deliver all the answers.I see it more like an academic atempt to data mining rather than a search engine.it is not a search engineI have commented on Wolfram Alpha's...

Tags: INTERNET, SEARCH, Wolfram Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?

Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?yeah....we're just talking about search engines, not about having a frenzied commitment against a single company taking over your life.Just a search discussion. Deep breaths. Not a Vista thread. There you go. Clueless kid!Do you even know what...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Google: Looking over shoulder at Wolfram|Alpha?

Google's Sergey Brin, co-founder and president of the search giant, on Thursday delivered the company's annual "Founders' Letter" and apparently is keeping a watchful eye on Wolfram|Alpha. If you recall, Wolfram|Alpha is a much ballyhooed search tool that claims to understand what a user is asking via...

Tags: Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Wolfram|Alpha, Engineering, Channel Management, Search, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Is Wolfram Alpha overhyped?

While everyone else will be looking at how Wolfram Alpha answers questions, I'm a lot more interested in who Stephen Wolfram hires to manage the project, and what their track record is, and how they will handle it when everyone "rushes to the rail" for a taste of what it's...

Tags: Track Record, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Wolfram Alpha: A model for data jobbing?

In yesterdays' blog I suggested that the biggest impediment to getting something working that usefully connects us directly to some kind of world wide information web is going to combine data storage with information personalization. The problem, of course, is that I couldn't care less what your puppy's name is...

Tags: Natural Language, Kind, Productivity, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web'

Another week another Google killer. Last week, it was Twitter as Google killer. This week it's Wolfam Alpha. The difference with Wolfram Alpha is that it has the pedigree, engineering heft and perhaps a better mousetrap to actually live up to the billing. Techmeme is a flutter...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Knowledge, Computer, Dan, Nova Spivak, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-08

Snowflakes or 3-D snowfakes?

Snowflakes have been puzzling mathematicians for about four centuries. Still, scientists have never been able to fully explain snowflake shapes. For example, is this true that their six-pointed structure reflect an underlying crystal structure? Now, two U.S. mathematicians have developed software that simulates 3-D snowflakes. And they discovered that even...

Tags: 3D, Researcher, Image, Computer, Molecule, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Stephen Wolfram: Reinventing Mathematica

I remember when Mathematica came on the scene in 1988. It worked on a Macintosh and was far beyond any math program that came before. Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of the Wolfram Research, got his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech when he was 20, and focused on...

Tags: Science, General

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Ray Kurzweil deciphers a brave new world

Ray Kurzweil deciphers a brave new worldHmmmBefore we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? -Steve PolyakAnd people actually take this guy seriously?The second half of this interview follows a template that's something like this:Interviewer: What do you think about (x idea which seems to...

Tags: Scanners, Nanotechnology, Research & Development, Strategy, Ray Kurzweil

Discussion threads 2005-09-29