Wolfram|Alpha Easter Eggs - My own findings
2009-06-24 14:13:00 So by now, most of the hype surrounding Wolfram|Alpha, the 'computational knowledge engine' has died down. It's an interesting search engine developed by Dr. Stephen Wolfram and it can do amazing things with numbers. read more &raqu-o;
Torturing Wolfram Alpha
2009-05-25 22:27:00 The latest buzz in knowledge systems is Wolfram Alpha. Let’s make this clear: it is not a Google-killer and doesn’t claim to be. It is billed as an “answer engine”, instead of a search engine. Search engines give you links to websites that answer your query; answer engines just try to give you an answer, full stop. Just to clear that up. I’ll try here to find the border of its knowledge, just to have a good idea of what it can handle and what it can’t. So, let’s calculate the odds of a “royal flush” in draw poker: All it understood was “royal flush”, and gave me odds for five and seven cards. No note as to whether this is natural deal, or discard and draw. “Which country had the most wars?” Here’s a more typical Wolfram Alpha experience: it’s stumped. No idea what I wanted. Neither of the provided links lead me anywhere near the answer I wanted. This is an example of a major problem wit...
Wolfram Alpha - What does it mean for Search Engine Optimisation?
2009-05-18 15:46:00 There has been a lot of high profile media buzz about the launch of a new "search engine" Wolfram|Alpha in the build up to its launch today, and this is something that Emily touched upon a few weeks ago when looking at new search engines coming onto the market. Wolfram|Alpha refer to themselves as a computational knowledge machine rather than "search engine" as is being said in a lot of the publicity around it. Although you enter a search query into it Wolfram|Alpha in much the same way as a "normal" search engine, it is there that the similarity ends. Traditional search engines index content, and through the use of an algorithm, determine which pages of content they have indexed are the most relevant results to the search query entered. There are all kinds of factors that determine a pages placement, such as Page Titles, Descriptions and other on page factors, as well as a large proportion of relevancy determined by the number of links and the words used in those links to ...
By: Seo Blog
Wolfram Alpha
2009-05-17 20:34:00 There is a lot of hype on Wolfram Alpha that launched on 15th - a brand new search engine, from the company famous for its Mathematica software. But this search engine is math based (no surprise) - which calculate 'answers' to your questions - or rather tries to figure out answers to the questions you are querying. They even posted their infrastructure details - having the 44th largest supercomputer, mirrored at 5 different locations and can handle 175+ million queries a day. I tried a little more than a couple of queries, most of which returned Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input. I tried queries based on my hometown, Trivandrum, Kerala which I keep track of on the net from time to time. Given "Where is Trivandrum", it showed the map of India with Trivandrum marked. But it doesn't seem to know anything about kerala - one of the top 50 tourist locations in the world (National Geographic). If this isn't in their current database of 10+ trillion of pieces of dat...
By: Anjanesh
Wolfram Alpha - The Holy Grail of Search Engines....
2009-05-05 16:05:00 ...or the next "Cuil" search engine that you hear of for the first and last time the day it launches? The key differentiator with Wolfram Alpha is that you can ask questions which it understands contextually. It then distills information from throughout the web and provides relevant answers. If
Elastic moduli of Wolfram
2009-04-09 10:41:00 I shall be grateful if somebody can tell me where may I look up for the different elastic moduli of crystalline Wolfram depending on the crystallographic orientation. Thanks!
Student Solves $25,000 Wolfram Computer Challenge
2007-10-27 13:00:00 A 20-year-old from the UK has recently proven that one of the simplest types of computers can solve every known computational problem, given enough time. Alex Smith, who is studying electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham, will receive mathematician Stephen Wolfram's $25,000 prize in a ceremony held in the home town of the famous computer scientist Alan Turing. read more
Wolfram?s 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!
2007-10-24 19:32:00 October 24, 2007–Wolfram Research and Stephen Wolfram today announced that 20-year-old Alex Smith of Birmingham, UK has won the US $25,000 Wolfram 2,3 Turing Machine Research Prize. In his 2002 book A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram hypothesized that a particular abstract Turing machine might be the simplest system of its type capable of acting ...
Wolfram Research Mathematica v6.0 ISO
2007-05-25 10:06:00 Long recognized as the world’s most powerful mathematical software system, Mathematica has steadily grown in breadth and depth to become today an unparalleled platform for all forms of computation.
Altair Engineering Collaborates with Wolfram Research to Integrate …
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