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Let me ask you something. Do you think we need Wolfram Alpha ? I know that’s the equivalent of asking someone circa 1999 “do you think we need Google?” but I’m just not sure what role the much anticipated search engine will fill. Oh, excuse me. It’s not a search engine. It’s a “computational knowledge engine.” The NYT tells us that Stephen Wolfram–Alpha’s creator–is “not keen” on the comparison with Google. But, even if...
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TechCrunch reports that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt and Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie have been named to President’s Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The council is designed to help the President and Vice President form policy related to science, technology, and innovation. The council has an impressive roster of people associated with major academic and research organizations The group is co-chaired by John Holdren...
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A new way of searching is on the way, and will come under the label Wolfram Alpha . This is a "knowledge engine" built by Stephen Wolfram , which allows users to ask questions and receive a single definitive answer rather than a page of results pointing to pages that may or may not have the answers they are looking for. Wolfram is a British physicist, mathematician and businessman known most for his computer algebra system Mathematica and his controversial book A New Kind of Science . Unlike...
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