Making the world's knowledge computable

doctorie · May 31, 2009

Wolfram|Alpha

http://www22.wolframalpha.com/

Making the world's knowledge computable

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Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing..

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of peopleâ€”spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.

Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement."
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Someone here may find this a useful search tool..

umgala · May 31, 2009

It couldn't tell me if dolphins could fly or not...

s o k a r · May 31, 2009

I thought it was the hover tank game.

Ryld Baenre · May 31, 2009

Neat, I just typed in "boiling point of 1,2-dichlorobenzene" and it changed it to "o-chlorobenzene" which is strange since it's an older naming system afaik. But, it gave the proper info. This is simple and could have been found using google but neat test.

Also typed in some trig equations to be graphed and it did it for me too I wonder if it can graph ones more complicated than sinx and sinx+2

It can, but don't know about compositions

Very neat little search engine they have created there.

Wow it showed the structure of myoglobin in the examples.

But failed with succinate dehydrogenase. it showed Coenzyme Q though still very cool.

I wonder what schools will say about using this for references. It could make a lot of peoples lives easier

Zarash · May 31, 2009

Wow I like that I tried some advanced math equations and it got them

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