Saturday, May 02, 2009

Coming in May

A new "computational search engine," called Wolfram|Alpha, is set to debut this month. 

According to a R/W Web post, some believe WA has the potential to be a "Google killer," although others believe it's a different sort of thing from the "traditional" Google search and serves a different purpose.  See this NYT review, too.

Wolfram|Alpha was shown recently at the Berkman Center. It looks impressive but I guess we'll have to have our data experts here in Lamont determine whether it lives up to its hype.  

And yes, the name is less than memorable -- Stephen Wolfram is the creator and company head.

1 comment:

Sue said...

It's live -- one week early. Give it a try. Looks like math, science and data types will like it. I even got the square root of a random 7 digit number.