Countdown to the Wolfram|Alpha Launch

Stephen Wolfram introduces the "Countdown to the Wolfram|Alpha Launch."
Watch a live webcast of the first attempt to being the Wolfram|Alpha system online on Friday, May 15. Coverage starts at 7pm CT.
Details at:
http://blog.wolframalpha.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Wolfram|Alpha
• Wolfram Alpha
• Stephen Wolfram
• Theodore Gray
• Max Whitby

[iCookie1]

First question I'm going to ask: "How many idiots are there on YouTube?" HAHA :D

[RailsTube]

How long until Google buys this? I can't wait to start using it. Imagine how much we will be able to grow from it.

[artbasss]

nerds rule!!!!thanx!!!

[Dirtfire]

That 42 reference comes from the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' :)

[lednerg]

Hey, now it says:

Assuming kilobytes for "KB" | Use kibibytes instead

Well done. You're definitely on the ball. Now if only W|A would quit adding the word "and" into numbers over a thousand. 1001 = one thousand one, not one thousand and one. At least for American users.

[raunet]

5 stars .

[Chick6517]

omg that was amazing i wish i could do that but me i know how to do very few thing haha but ya cudos to you ... i think imma try to learn to do that [=

[TiniPaulini]

this is our future! don't stop it! it is our duty to use the human resources to create tecnology that brings us into a better future. Let's use our knowledge to build tecnology which helps us to be better men and mend our faults and.

But every new relevant tecnology should be controled independently!!!

greets from Austria

[nuclearspike]

enter in WA & google: "how old was abraham lincoln when he died" G will take you to a page where someone else asked that question and you hope the person who answered gave accurate information (& be glad someone has already asked it!), WA will do the calculation itself based on facts it has stored. asking how he died is not computational. try "auto manufacturer profits" G will return junk, WA will return numbers that it computed knowing which companies are in that industry and their profits.

[nuclearspike]

It will not replace Google and it's not trying to. The failings you see out are outside of the scope of what it's intended to do. Agreed, your idea of a knowledge base of everything will be nice when we have it, in the mean time this is a big step toward that. As for it's intent: try "weather where michelle obama born when barack obama born" in both google and WA. Or put in "$1 in peru" into both. Or try "1 cup OJ + 6 oz sugar + 1 cup milk" in both and see which one produces something useful.

[monkeyfeck]

njb444: i thought you were joking, but it did answer 42. it will also answer questions about the airspeed velocity of a swallow.