Saturday, May 16, 2009

Wolfram Alpha is Coming!

A new specialized internet search engine will be operational beginning this upcoming Monday!  It is named Wolfram Alpha.

Here is a description from the website:

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.

Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.


This search engine will be great for engineers, economists, scientists, and anyone else who wants to analyze publicly available information and try to make sense of it.

For example, if you wanted to know how the median income in America has changed as a function of time...and if you wanted to know how this has changed relative to the top 1% of earners in America...you could do that....and Wolfram Alpha would make it easy.


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