Wolfram Alpha — it’s like plugging into an electronic brain
Sun, Mar 8th, 2009 |
Scientist Stephen Wolfram has built a new engine, called Wolfram Alpha, that apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google.
Wolfram has just posted about the effort, which has taken years of working in stealth, and involves hundreds of employees. He explains the basics of how his "computational knowledge engine" works: You ask it factual questions (such as "How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?") and it computers answers for you.
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