This Monday, I had a chance to visit with researchers at Wolfram Research, in Champaign, IL, who are frantically putting the final touches on Wolfram Alpha, the new “computational knowledge engine” from physicist Stephen Wolfram. This engine is meant to go live in two or three weeks; with it, you’ll be able to enter “GDP Germany Japan” and get not a list of Web pages, but comparative charts on the economic output of those two nations. Or you can enter “GATACTTCA” and find the spots on the human genome where that sequence appears.
Where Wolfram’s ‘Knowledge Engine’ May Have the Edge
April 30, 2009