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Pål Joakim OlsenWolfram|Alpha: Our First Impressions http://ow.ly/3YA3
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pedro_daltroAlpha is built around a vast repository of curated data from public and licensed sources. Alpha then organizes and computes this knowledge with the help of sophisticated Natural Language Processing algorithms. Users can ask Alpha any kind of question, whi
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deborah lazarThe hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next "Google killer" from the makers of Mathematica, . . .nstead of searching the web for info, Alpha is built around a vast repository of curated data from public and licensed sources. Alpha then organizes and computes this knowledge with the help of sophisticated Natural Language Processing algorithms. Users can ask Alpha any kind of question, which can be constructed just like a Google search (think: "hurricane bob" or "carbon steel strength").
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Giacomo RattaThe hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next "Google killer" from the makers of Mathematica, has been building over the last few weeks. Today, we were lucky enough to attend a one-hour web demo with Stephen Wolfram, and from what we've seen, it definitely look
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the goal of Alpha is to give everyone access to expert knowledge and the data that a specialist would be able to compute from this information
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Alpha is built around a vast repository of curated data from public and licensed sources. Alpha then organizes and computes this knowledge with the help of sophisticated Natural Language Processing algorithms. Users can ask Alpha any kind of question
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Where Alpha exceeds, is in the presentation of its "search" results. When asked for how many internet users there are in Europe, for example, Alpha returned not just the total number, but also various plots and data for every country (apparently Vatican City only has 93 Internet users)
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Another query with a very sophisticated result was "uncle's uncle's brother's son." Now if you type that into Google, the result will be a useless list of sites that don't even answer this specific question, but Alpha actually returns an interactive genealogic tree with additional information, including data about the 'blood relationship fraction,' for example (3.125% in this case)
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Alpha is built on top of 5 million lines of Mathematica code which currently run on top of about 10,000 CPUs
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Mathematica, however, will also be one of the first programs to make use of the Alpha API, so that Mathematica users will be able to access Alpha's repository of data.
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Alpha also has a sophisticated knowledge of physics and chemistry data
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nutritional information, weather, and census data
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eal-time financial data or weather information
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29 Apr 09
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Nikki ReynoldsArticle on Wolfram|Alpha, a "computational knowledge engine" that will answer specific questions, rather than simply return postentially matching web pages. Expected to be released a few weeks from 4/29/200.
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28 Apr 09
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Thanes SirichoomsaengThe hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next "Google killer" from the makers of Mathematica, has been building over the last few weeks. Today, we were lucky enough to attend ...
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Tuan NguyenThe hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next
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27 Apr 09
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Gosia StergiosWolfram|Alpha will be an amazing product, but it's quite different from Google and other search engines. Indeed, maybe it is actually wrong to call it a search engine at all (and Wolfram prefers to call it a "computational knowledge engine"). If you wante
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26 Apr 09
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According to Stephen Wolfram, the goal of Alpha is to give everyone access to expert knowledge and the data that a specialist would be able to compute from this information.
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Alpha, of course, doesn't hide its relationship with Mathematica. Indeed, according to Stephen Wolfram, Alpha is built on top of 5 million lines of Mathematica code which currently run on top of about 10,000 CPUs (though Wolfram is actively expanding its server farm in preparation for the public launch).
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Mathematica, however, will also be one of the first programs to make use of the Alpha API, so that Mathematica users will be able to access Alpha's repository of data.
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Wolfram will release toolbars for FF
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