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- Launched in May 2009
- Invented by British scientist Stephen Wolfram
- A free online service
- Wolfram previously invented Mathematica, a computational software program used in technical computing
- Information queries include science, technology, geography, weather, cooking, business, travel, people, musicTechCrunch: Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big (March 8, 2009)
- Program is based on a natural language interfaceTechCrunch: Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big (March 8, 2009)
- Uses cellular automata, an idea developed in Wolfram's book A New Kind of ScienceTechCrunch: Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big (March 8, 2009)
- System responses are based on factual, answerable questions as opposed to open-ended philosophical queriesTechCrunch: Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big (March 8, 2009)
- The interface will be as simple as Google's interfaceWolfram.com: Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming! (March 5, 2009)
- Accesses billions of pages of online textWolfram.com: Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming! (March 5, 2009)
- Methods and models are explicitly implemented as algorithmsWolfram.com: Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming! (March 5, 2009)
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Wolfram Alpha is a free online service scheduled that was released in May 2009. Inventor and British scientist Stephen Wolfram, has referred to his Wolfram Alpha as a "computational knowledge engine".PC World: Is Wolfram Alpha a Google Killer (May 4, 2009)
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Four Pillars of Wolfram Alpha Service
- Data Curation: Access to a massive amount of data that has collected from various sourcesNY Times: The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha (April 28, 2009)
- Internal algorithm and computation: Utilizes a computational engine built on top of MathematicaNY Times: The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha (April 28, 2009)
- Linguistic understanding: A online service system which interprets conversational queriesNY Times: The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha (April 28, 2009)
- Automated presentation: Uses technology to display query results in "interesting ways"NY Times: The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha (April 28, 2009)
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How Does It Work?
Wolfram was designed as a program which can break down a set of factual questions a user might ask in the course of a verbal conversation, such as "What country is Timbukto in?", "How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?", "What is the average rainfall in Seattle?" by using a built in model of fields of real world knowledgeTechCrunch: Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big (March 8, 2009). Trillions of pieces of raw data about numerous fields of knowledge were manually entered or automatically pulled in to build Wolfram Alpha's database, starting with Wolfram's existing projects, Mathematica and NKS. Models and algorithms that do computations with the data were added in and constructed in a modular fashion on top of the Mathematica engine. The project is said to work by first parsing the question, then accessing the data to compute a new answer.TechCrunch: Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big (March 8, 2009) -
Natural Language Processing
Wolfram Alpha uses "natural language processing algorithms" to find the answers to users' questions, allowing users to phrase queries as if they were asking a question in a conversation.PC World: Is Wolfram Alpha a Google Killer (May 4, 2009) -
Previews and Reviews
- "It's hard to judge a product from a demo, but by the looks of it, Wolfram Alpha is impressive."—NY TimesNY Times: The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha (April 28, 2009)
- "...because it is so different from traditional search engines, it will definitely not be a "Google killer""—ReadWriteWeb RWW: Wolfram|Alpha: Our First Impressions (April 25, 2009)
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Wolfram Alpha Questions
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Has anyone here tried Wolfram | Alpha yet? 7 AnswersI tried wolfram alpha and enjoyed some of its features. Let us go through other reviews. -- quote --- Type in a mathematical formula or a complex engineering ... read more
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Wolfram Alpha News
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Wolfram Alpha Still Trying To Justify That $50 iPhone App With New Virtual ...
In October, computational engine Wolfram Alpha launched a slick iPhone app. The only problem? They miscalculated what it should cost. ... (February 05, 2010)Washington Post -
WolframAlpha, Trunk Notes, Smart Recorder
WolframAlpha 1.1 ($50) - WolframAlpha 1.1 is a new version of the company's scientific calculator for the iPhone and iPod touch. The latest version brings ... (February 08, 2010)MacNN -
WolframAlpha Adds New Specialized Keyboards to Its iPhone App - Still Not ...
Back in October 18, 2009, WolframAlpha packed all the functionalities of its computational engine into an app for the iPhone. The only problem is that the ... (February 05, 2010)Erictric -
5 Sites That Are Better Than Google
Wolfram|Alpha calls itself a "computational knowledge engine," but I think of it as a 21st-century equivalent of a thick, fact-packed paperback almanac. ... (February 09, 2010)FOXNews
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Wolfram Alpha Links Powered by Google
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Wolfram Blog : Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!
Wolfram Research will soon be releasing Wolfram|Alpha, a computational knowledge engine accessing trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms.blog.wolfram.com -
Wolfram Alpha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wolfram Research: Mathematica, Technical and Scientific Software
Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, the only fully integrated technical computing softwarewolfram.com
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Wolfram Alpha Blogs
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» Wolfram Alpha App 1.1 with Better Specialized Keyboards
The team behind computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha announced the release of an iPhone specific app last year, in October. The one thing that people complained about at the time. (February 09, 2010)findmysoft.com -
Wolfram Alpha Updates Their $50 iPhone App -- Technomaly
For those who don't remember, Wolfram Alpha is a website that answers user questions by directly computing the answer, instead of crawling the web for the. (February 09, 2010)technomaly.com -
Wolfram Alpha Still Trying To Justify That $50 iPhone App With New ...
In October, computational engine Wolfram Alpha launched a slick iPhone app. The only problem? They miscalculated what it should cost. The app is ... (February 05, 2010)techcrunch.com -
Wolfram|Alpha App 1.1 For iPhone and iPod touch – Features A New ...
Version 1.1 of the Wolfram|Alpha App for the iPhone & iPod is now available in the App Store. The new version includes a number of new features that continue to improve the app's unique mobile Wolfram|Alpha<... (February 08, 2010)apple-investor.com
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On Twitter powered by Twitter
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Ai découvert ce soir wolfram alpha, the new semantic research : impressionnante avancée #fb
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anyone else hear "oberto alpha player of the game" and think "wolfram alpha"?
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Wolfram alpha is useless, can't convert GBP to barrels crude despite parsing it correctly.
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RT @opencalais: Join us for 'The math and magic of Wolfram Alpha' on Thursday, Feb. 18th - The Los Angeles Semantic Web Meetup http://bit.ly/dp3nAA
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@bingcashback Wolfram Alpha is integrated with Bing? :O Also, "rubik's cube solve" at wolframalpha.com may be amusing: http://bit.ly/dsxVnl
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